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Astrophysical techniques / / C.R. Kitchin
| Astrophysical techniques / / C.R. Kitchin |
| Autore | Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.) |
| Edizione | [Seventh edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 522 |
| Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics - Technique
Astronomy - Technique Imaging systems in astronomy Astronomical instruments |
| ISBN |
0-429-95699-1
0-429-49113-1 0-429-95698-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Chapter 1: Detectors -- 1.1 Optical Detection -- 1.1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.2 Detector Types -- 1.1.3 The Eye -- 1.1.4 Semiconductors -- 1.1.4.1 The Photoelectric Effect -- 1.1.5 A Detector Index -- 1.1.6 Detector Parameters -- 1.1.7 Cryostats -- 1.1.8 Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) -- 1.1.8.1 CCDs -- 1.1.8.2 Charge Injection Devices (CIDs) -- 1.1.8.3 CCDs -- The Future -- 1.1.9 Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) -- 1.1.9.1 Photodiodes -- 1.1.9.2 Avalanche Photodiode
1.1.9.3 Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes -- 1.1.10 Photography -- 1.1.11 Photomultipliers (PMTs) -- 1.1.12 Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) Detectors -- 1.1.13 Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) or Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) -- 1.1.14 Future Possibilities -- 1.1.15 Infrared Detectors -- 1.1.15.1 Photoconductive Cells -- 1.1.15.2 Bolometers -- 1.1.15.3 Other Types of Detectors -- 1.1.15.4 Astronomical Applications -- 1.1.16 Ultraviolet Detectors -- 1.1.16.1 Applications -- 1.1.17 Noise, Uncertainties, Errors, Precision and Accuracy -- 1.1.17.1 Intrinsic Noise 1.1.17.2 Signal Noise -- 1.1.17.3 Digitisation -- 1.1.17.4 Errors and Uncertainties in Data Reduction, Analysis, and Presentation -- 1.1.18 Telescopes -- 1.1.18.1 Telescopes from the Beginning -- 1.1.18.2 Optical Theory -- 1.1.19 Telescope Designs -- 1.1.19.1 Background -- 1.1.19.2 Designs -- 1.1.20 Telescopes in Space -- 1.1.21 Mountings -- 1.1.22 Real-Time Atmospheric Compensation -- 1.1.22.1 Sampling System -- 1.1.22.2 Wavefront Sensing -- 1.1.22.3 Wavefront Correction -- 1.1.23 Future Developments -- 1.1.24 Observing Domes, Enclosures and Sites -- 1.2 Radio and Microwave Detection 1.2.1 Introduction -- 1.2.2 Detectors and Receivers -- 1.2.2.1 Detectors -- 1.2.2.2 Receivers -- 1.2.3 Radio Telescopes -- 1.2.3.1 Construction -- 1.2.3.2 Future -- 1.3 X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detection -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 Detectors -- 1.3.2.1 Geiger Counters -- 1.3.2.2 Proportional Counters -- 1.3.2.3 Scintillation Detectors -- 1.3.2.4 Pair Production Detectors -- 1.3.2.5 Gas Scintillation Proportional Counters -- 1.3.2.6 Compton Interaction Detectors -- 1.3.2.7 Solid-State Detectors -- 1.3.2.8 Microchannel Plates -- 1.3.2.9 Cerenkov Detectors -- 1.3.2.10 Future Possibilities 1.3.3 Shielding -- 1.3.4 Imaging -- 1.3.4.1 Collimation -- 1.3.4.2 Coincidence Detectors -- 1.3.4.3 Occultation -- 1.3.4.4 Reflecting Telescopes -- 1.3.5 Resolution and Image Identification -- 1.3.6 Spectroscopy -- 1.3.6.1 Grating Spectrometers -- 1.3.6.2 Bragg Spectrometers -- 1.3.7 Polarimetry -- 1.3.8 Observing Platforms -- 1.4 Cosmic Ray Detectors -- 1.4.1 Background -- 1.4.2 Detectors -- 1.4.2.1 Real-Time Methods -- 1.4.2.2 Residual Track Detectors -- 1.4.2.3 Indirect Detectors -- 1.4.3 Arrays -- 1.4.4 Correction Factors -- 1.4.4.1 Atmospheric Effects -- 1.4.4.2 Solar Effects |
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Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.)
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| Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, , 2020 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Understanding gravitational waves / / C. R. Kitchin
| Understanding gravitational waves / / C. R. Kitchin |
| Autore | Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
| Disciplina | 539.754 |
| Collana | Astronomers' Universe |
| Soggetto topico | Gravitational waves |
| ISBN | 3-030-74207-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Read This Before You Jump-in at the Deep End -- How to Read This Book -- Numbers -- Units -- Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Topicality -- Contents -- 1: 14th September 2015 -- On the Significance of 1/400 of a Proton's Diameter -- What, Then Caused {10} GW150914? -- 2: Gravity: From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- From Pre-History to Galileo -- Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Galileo -- Brahe and Kepler -- Newton -- Newton to Einstein: The Interregnum -- The Gravitational Constant -- Different Types of Mass: The Equivalence Principle -- Into the Nineteenth Century: And the Discrepancies Start to Appear -- Uranus' Positional Anomaly -- Mercury's Perihelion Positional Anomaly -- 3: Gravity: From 1915-Through Today-And on Towards Tomorrow -- Einstein -- Relativity -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- But What About Spacecraft? -- General Relativity: The Small Print -- General Relativity: The Nitty Gritty -- Testing General Relativity -- Mercury's Perihelion Problem: First Test -- The Bending of Light Beams: Second Test -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Redshift: Third Test -- The Shapiro Effect: Fourth Test -- Rotating Frames of Reference -- Gravity into the Future -- 4: Gravitational Waves: The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Introduction -- Gravitational Waves up to Einstein -- Gravitational Waves After Einstein -- Gravitational Waves: The Real Thing -- 5: Gravitational Waves: Origins and Sources -- Introduction -- Potentially Observable Sources of Gravitational Waves -- Burst Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Continuous Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Inspiral Type Gravitational Wave Sources (Binary Merger Type Gravitational Wave Sources) -- Stochastic Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Frequencies.
{90} GW170817: Three Detectors and Two Neutron Stars -- Some Final Questions and Thoughts About Gravitational Wave Sources -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves? -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves Which We Can Detect? -- What About Making Our Own Detectable Gravitational Waves Then? -- Suppose Some Event Produced Intense Gravitational Waves Very Nearby -- Could I Be Injured? -- OK: Could the Earth/Sun/Solar System Be Affected Then? -- Gravitational Wave Sources: The First Nobel Prize -- Neutron Stars and Pulsars -- What Makes a Clock a Good Clock? -- Pulsar Clocks -- PSR B1913+16 -- 6: Gravitational Wave Events: Calling the Roll -- Introduction -- Individual Gravitational Wave Events -- Observational Run O1 -- {10} GW150914 -- {20} GW151012 -- {30} GW151226 -- Observational Run O2 -- {40} GW170104 -- {50} GW170608 -- {70} GW170809 -- {80} GW170814 -- {90} GW170817 -- {100} GW170818 -- Observational Runs O3a and O3b -- {180} GW190425z -- {270} GW190521g -- {430} GW190814bv -- {520} GW190924h -- 7: Into the Unknown: The First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Introduction -- Weber's Gravitational Wave Detector -- Other Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Material -- Cooling -- Mechanical Noise Reduction -- Detection -- Shape -- Detectors -- 8: Eureka!: A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Introduction -- Michelson and Morley -- The Present Day Scene -- The Next Few Years -- Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Devil Is in the Details -- General Noise -- Thermal Noise -- Shot Noise -- Refractive Index -- Shields and Baffles -- The Light Source -- Preparing the Initial Light Beam -- Beam Splitter -- The Light Beams Within the Arms -- Delay Line -- Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Frequency Limits -- Resonances -- Efficiency -- The Mirrors -- Test Masses and Their Supports. The Mirrors Themselves -- Recombining the Beams -- Detection -- Optical Detectors -- Gravitational Wave Signatures -- Ancillary Items -- Putting It All Together -- Getting It Going -- The Detectors -- 9: Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors: Into the Future-And Beyond -- So, You Want to be an Amateur Gravitational Wave Astronomer, Do You? -- Build Your Own -- Become a Professional -- Keep in Touch -- Join in the Fun -- The Near(ish) Future -- The Future of Resonant Bar-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Future of Terrestrial Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- AdvLIGO, AdvVirgo and GEO600/GEO H-F -- KAGRA -- Slightly Further into the Future -- Atom Interferometers -- The Future of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Doppler Tracking -- Space-Based Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Long-Odds Runners -- Associated Events -- The Far Future -- Observing the Faintest of All Gravitational Waves -- Gravitational Waves: The Discovery of the Millennium? -- Gravitics -- Faster than Light? #1 -- Faster than Light? #2 -- Faster than Light? #3 -- SETI -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Memory Refreshers -- Appendix ☆ A.1: The Index Notation for Numbers -- Introduction -- The Index Notation for Numbers -- Large Numbers -- Small Numbers -- Index Notation: A Bonus -- And a Final Note: On 22, 40.5 and 3−1, etc. -- Appendix ☆ A.2: The Index Notation for Units -- Appendix ☆☆ A.3: The Inverse-Square Law -- Appendix B: Further Study -- Appendix ☆☆ B.1: Centrifugal and Centripetal forces -- Appendix ☆☆☆ B.2: Angular Momentum -- Linear Momentum -- Angular Momentum -- Appendix ☆☆ B.3: Static and Rotating Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Appendix ☆☆ B.4: Light-Particle or Wave? -- Appendix C: For the High Fliers -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.1: Does Light have Mass? and/or Momentum?. Appendix ☆☆ C.2: Tensor Analysis -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.3: Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Appendix D: Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Système International D'unités, or SI System -- Convention -- SI Prefixes -- Bibliography -- Other Books by C.R. Kitchin -- Gravity -- Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors -- Special/General Relativity -- Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Other Compact Objects -- Physics -- Electricity and Magnetism -- General -- Light and Optics -- Mathematics -- Index. |
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Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.)
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Understanding gravitational waves / / C. R. Kitchin
| Understanding gravitational waves / / C. R. Kitchin |
| Autore | Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
| Disciplina | 539.754 |
| Collana | Astronomers' Universe |
| Soggetto topico | Gravitational waves |
| ISBN | 3-030-74207-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Read This Before You Jump-in at the Deep End -- How to Read This Book -- Numbers -- Units -- Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Topicality -- Contents -- 1: 14th September 2015 -- On the Significance of 1/400 of a Proton's Diameter -- What, Then Caused {10} GW150914? -- 2: Gravity: From 850,000,000 BCE to 1915 CE -- From Pre-History to Galileo -- Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Galileo -- Brahe and Kepler -- Newton -- Newton to Einstein: The Interregnum -- The Gravitational Constant -- Different Types of Mass: The Equivalence Principle -- Into the Nineteenth Century: And the Discrepancies Start to Appear -- Uranus' Positional Anomaly -- Mercury's Perihelion Positional Anomaly -- 3: Gravity: From 1915-Through Today-And on Towards Tomorrow -- Einstein -- Relativity -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- But What About Spacecraft? -- General Relativity: The Small Print -- General Relativity: The Nitty Gritty -- Testing General Relativity -- Mercury's Perihelion Problem: First Test -- The Bending of Light Beams: Second Test -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Redshift: Third Test -- The Shapiro Effect: Fourth Test -- Rotating Frames of Reference -- Gravity into the Future -- 4: Gravitational Waves: The Long, Long Journey from Half-Seen Chimeras to Highly Studied Certainties -- Introduction -- Gravitational Waves up to Einstein -- Gravitational Waves After Einstein -- Gravitational Waves: The Real Thing -- 5: Gravitational Waves: Origins and Sources -- Introduction -- Potentially Observable Sources of Gravitational Waves -- Burst Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Continuous Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Inspiral Type Gravitational Wave Sources (Binary Merger Type Gravitational Wave Sources) -- Stochastic Type Gravitational Wave Sources -- Frequencies.
{90} GW170817: Three Detectors and Two Neutron Stars -- Some Final Questions and Thoughts About Gravitational Wave Sources -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves? -- Does the Earth Generate Gravitational Waves Which We Can Detect? -- What About Making Our Own Detectable Gravitational Waves Then? -- Suppose Some Event Produced Intense Gravitational Waves Very Nearby -- Could I Be Injured? -- OK: Could the Earth/Sun/Solar System Be Affected Then? -- Gravitational Wave Sources: The First Nobel Prize -- Neutron Stars and Pulsars -- What Makes a Clock a Good Clock? -- Pulsar Clocks -- PSR B1913+16 -- 6: Gravitational Wave Events: Calling the Roll -- Introduction -- Individual Gravitational Wave Events -- Observational Run O1 -- {10} GW150914 -- {20} GW151012 -- {30} GW151226 -- Observational Run O2 -- {40} GW170104 -- {50} GW170608 -- {70} GW170809 -- {80} GW170814 -- {90} GW170817 -- {100} GW170818 -- Observational Runs O3a and O3b -- {180} GW190425z -- {270} GW190521g -- {430} GW190814bv -- {520} GW190924h -- 7: Into the Unknown: The First Years of the Quest for Gravitational Waves -- Introduction -- Weber's Gravitational Wave Detector -- Other Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Material -- Cooling -- Mechanical Noise Reduction -- Detection -- Shape -- Detectors -- 8: Eureka!: A Beginner's Guide to Making Successful Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Introduction -- Michelson and Morley -- The Present Day Scene -- The Next Few Years -- Interferometer-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors: The Devil Is in the Details -- General Noise -- Thermal Noise -- Shot Noise -- Refractive Index -- Shields and Baffles -- The Light Source -- Preparing the Initial Light Beam -- Beam Splitter -- The Light Beams Within the Arms -- Delay Line -- Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Frequency Limits -- Resonances -- Efficiency -- The Mirrors -- Test Masses and Their Supports. The Mirrors Themselves -- Recombining the Beams -- Detection -- Optical Detectors -- Gravitational Wave Signatures -- Ancillary Items -- Putting It All Together -- Getting It Going -- The Detectors -- 9: Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors: Into the Future-And Beyond -- So, You Want to be an Amateur Gravitational Wave Astronomer, Do You? -- Build Your Own -- Become a Professional -- Keep in Touch -- Join in the Fun -- The Near(ish) Future -- The Future of Resonant Bar-Type Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Future of Terrestrial Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- AdvLIGO, AdvVirgo and GEO600/GEO H-F -- KAGRA -- Slightly Further into the Future -- Atom Interferometers -- The Future of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Doppler Tracking -- Space-Based Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors -- Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detectors -- The Long-Odds Runners -- Associated Events -- The Far Future -- Observing the Faintest of All Gravitational Waves -- Gravitational Waves: The Discovery of the Millennium? -- Gravitics -- Faster than Light? #1 -- Faster than Light? #2 -- Faster than Light? #3 -- SETI -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Memory Refreshers -- Appendix ☆ A.1: The Index Notation for Numbers -- Introduction -- The Index Notation for Numbers -- Large Numbers -- Small Numbers -- Index Notation: A Bonus -- And a Final Note: On 22, 40.5 and 3−1, etc. -- Appendix ☆ A.2: The Index Notation for Units -- Appendix ☆☆ A.3: The Inverse-Square Law -- Appendix B: Further Study -- Appendix ☆☆ B.1: Centrifugal and Centripetal forces -- Appendix ☆☆☆ B.2: Angular Momentum -- Linear Momentum -- Angular Momentum -- Appendix ☆☆ B.3: Static and Rotating Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Appendix ☆☆ B.4: Light-Particle or Wave? -- Appendix C: For the High Fliers -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.1: Does Light have Mass? and/or Momentum?. Appendix ☆☆ C.2: Tensor Analysis -- Appendix ☆☆☆ C.3: Fabry-Perot Cavities -- Appendix D: Constants, Definitions, Quantities, Symbols and Units -- Système International D'unités, or SI System -- Convention -- SI Prefixes -- Bibliography -- Other Books by C.R. Kitchin -- Gravity -- Gravitational Waves and Their Detectors -- Special/General Relativity -- Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Other Compact Objects -- Physics -- Electricity and Magnetism -- General -- Light and Optics -- Mathematics -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502996703321 |
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Kitchin C. R (Christopher R.)
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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