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This comprehensive and unique reference work on astro-tomography is based on expanded and suitably edited contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Astro-tomography. The focus is on studying indirect imaging and subsequent reconstruction techniques with applications in all areas of observational astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Detailed subject and object indexes, together with a list of useful resources on the Internet, will help the reader to use this book in a most efficient way.
List of contents
Doppler Tomography.- Mapping the Peculiar Binary GP Com.- H?-Emission Doppler Tomography of Long-Period Cataclysmic Variable Stars.- Doppler Tomography of the Dwarf Nova IY UMa During Quiescence.- Spiral Waves in Accretion Discs- Observations.- Spiral Waves in Accretion Discs- Theory.- Spiral Shocks in an Inviscid Simulation of Accretion Flow in a Close Binary System.- Imaging the Secondary Stars in Cataclysmic Variables.- Statistics of Isolated Emission Sources in Cataclysmic Variables.- Tomography of Polars.- Tomography of Magnetic Accretion Flows.- The Geometrical Configuration of Polars and Possible Reconstruction Artefacts of Eclipse Mapping Methods.- Spot Mapping in Cool Stars.- Imaging the Magnetic Topologies of Cool Active Stars.- Differential Rotation of Close Binary Stars: Application to HR 1099.- Magnetic Doppler Imaging of Chemically Peculiar Stars.- Stokes Imaging of the Accretion Region in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.- Doppler Images of the M Dwarf RE 1816 +541.- The Method of Spectra Disentangling and Its Links to Doppler Tomography.- Fourier Disentangling of Composite Spectra.- Doppler Tomography of Eclipsing and Non-eclipsing Algols.- Tomography of the Atmosphere of Long-Period Variable Stars.- Eclipse Mapping of Accretion Discs.- Physical Parameter Eclipse Mapping.- Applications of Indirect Imaging Techniques in X-ray Binaries.- Doppler Tomography of XTE J2123-058 and Other Neutron Star LMXBs.- Echo Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei.- Echoes in X-ray Binaries: Mapping the Accretion Flow.
Report
"Indirect imaging has become the norm in studies of cataclysmic binaries and related objects - but after more than 15 years this is the first book to document the techniques in a systematic way. It is therefore extremely welcome and is indispensable reading for all users of these techniques. [...] This is a book to keep close to your desk if you are working in this area." (The Observatory, 122/1171, 2002)
