Handbook of X-Ray Astronomy

Klappentext A practical guide for graduate students, professionals and researchers, describing the main hardware and the concepts behind data analysis software. Zusammenfassung Written for graduate students! professional astronomers and researchers! this book is a practical guide to x-ray astronomy. It describes the main hardware used in x-ray astronomy! emphasizing the implications for data analysis! and explains the concepts behind common x-ray astronomy data analysis software. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. X-ray astronomy optics Daniel A. Schwartz; 2. Proportional counters and other detector techniques Richard J. Edgar; 3. CCDs for x-ray astronomy Catherine E. Grant; 4. Data reduction and calibration Keith A. Arnaud and Randall K. Smith; 5. Data analysis Randall K. Smith, Keith A. Arnaud and Aneta Siemiginowska; 6. Archives, surveys, catalogues and software Keith Arnaud; 7. Statistics Aneta Siemiginowska; 8. Analysis of extended emission K. D. Kuntz; Appendices; Index.

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• Authors: Keith Arnaud, Keith (Dr Arnaud, Keith Smith Arnaud, ARNAUD KEITH SMITH RANDALL SIEMI
• Assisted by: Keith Arnaud (Editor), Keith A. Arnaud (Editor), Aneta Siemiginowska (Editor), Randall Smith (Editor), Randall K. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521883733
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88373-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers; Cambridge Observing Handbooks; Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers; Cambridge Observing Handbooks
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy