LEADER 04003nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910816165003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-306-48080-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000024351 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-306-48080-5 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL197701 035 $a(OCoLC)70734591 035 $a(PPN)237914328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3035955 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000024351 100 $a20030212d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInformation handling in astronomy $ehistorical vistas /$fedited by Andre Heck 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDordrecht $cKluwer Academic Publishers$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 298 p.) 225 1 $aAstrophysics and space science library ;$vv. 285 311 $a90-481-6245-9 311 $a1-4020-1178-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHalf a Century of Intense Maturation -- Evolution of Time Measurement in Astronomy -- Evolution of Data Processing in Optical Astronomy ? A Personal Account -- IHAP: Image Handling and Processing System -- FITS: A Remarkable Achievement in Information Exchange -- The Munich Image Data Analysis System -- AIPS, the VLA, and the VLBA -- Changes in Astronomical Publications During the 20th Century -- The Evolution and Role of the Astronomical Library and Librarian -- The Development of the Astronomy Digital Library -- From Early Directories to Current Yellow-Page Services -- Pre-College Astronomy Education in the United States in the Twentieth Century -- The Birth and Evolution of the Planetarium -- The Changing Role of the IAU in Providing and Organizing Information -- Was the Carte du Ciel an Obstruction to the Development of Astrophysics in Europe? -- Amateur Data and Astronomical Discoveries in the 20th Century. 330 $aThis book is dedicated to the memory of Gisèle Mersch whose life ended prematurely in June 2002. Back in the 1970's, when few people were using them, Gisèle introduced me to the arcane secrets of then advanced multivariate statistical methodologies. I was already involved in more classical statistical studies undertaken at Paris Observatory with Jean Jung: developing and applying maxim- likelihood algorithms to stellar photometric and kinematic data in order to derive absolute luminosities, distances and velocities in the solar neighborhood. But what could be envisaged with those methodologies was something of another dimension: for the first time, I could really see how to extract information from massive amounts of data without calling for elaborated physical or mechanical theories. Several pioneering applications were developed under Gisèle?s guidance and with her collaboration to study the delicate interface between spectroscopic and photometric data. Thus errors in spectral classifications were investigated as well as predictions of spectral classifications from pho- metric indices (see Heck 1976, Heck et al. 1977, Heck & Mersch 1980 and Mersch & Heck 1980), with very interesting results for the time. Gisèle also took part in studies of period determination algorithms (see Mersch & Heck 1981, Manfroid et al. 1983 and Heck et al. 1985). 410 0$aAstrophysics and space science library ;$vv. 285. 606 $aAstronomy$xData processing 606 $aCommunication in astronomy 606 $aInformation storage and retrieval systems$xAstronomy 615 0$aAstronomy$xData processing. 615 0$aCommunication in astronomy. 615 0$aInformation storage and retrieval systems$xAstronomy. 676 $a520/.1/4 701 $aHeck$b A$g(Andre)$0346682 712 02$aSpringerLink (Online service) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816165003321 996 $aInformation handling in astronomy$94194585 997 $aUNINA