Practical Optical Interferometry - Imaging At Visible and Infrared Wavelengths

A practically focused guide to optical interferometry, bringing together core concepts needed to plan observations, analyse data and reconstruct images.

List of contents

Principal symbols, functions and operators; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; 1. Making fringes; 2. Basic imaging; 3. Atmospheric seeing and its amelioration; 4. Interferometers in practice; 5. Measurement noise; 6. Interferometric observation of faint objects; 7. Observation planning; 8. Data reduction; 9. Model-fitting and image reconstruction; Appendix A. Fourier transforms; Appendix B. Supplementary online material; References; Index.

About the author

David F. Buscher is a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and is System Architect for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an imaging interferometer under construction in New Mexico. He works on the design, construction and exploitation of optical interferometers and adaptive optics systems and is the UK representative on the Science Council for the European Interferometry Initiative.

Summary

Addressing for the first time the needs of graduate students and researchers for a comprehensive yet concise single source of information on the techniques and practical application of optical interferometry in astronomy, this volume is a highly visual and rigorous guide to planning observations, analysing data and reconstructing images.

Product details

• Authors: David Buscher, David F Buscher, David F. Buscher, David F. (University of Cambridge) Buscher, Buscher David F.
• Assisted by: Longair Malcolm (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107042179
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04217-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers; Cambridge Observing Handbooks; Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers; Cambridge Observing Handbooks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy