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020 _a9781138591202
040 _cIIT Kanpur
041 _aeng
082 _a523.01
_bK648a7
100 _aKitchin, C. R.
245 _aAstrophysical techniques [7th ed.]
_cC. R. Kitchin
250 _a7th ed.
260 _bCRC Press
_c2021
_aBoca Raton
300 _axv, 449p
520 _aLong used in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, Astrophysical Techniques, Seventh Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive account of the innovate instruments, detectors, and techniques employed in astronomy and astrophysics. Emphasizing the underlying unity of all astronomical observations, this popular textbook provides a coherent state-of-the-art account of the instruments and techniques used in current astronomy and astrophysics. Fully updated throughout, this seventh edition builds upon the sixth edition, covering improved techniques and cutting-edge methods in the field, as well as other exciting new developments in gravitational waves, dark matter and energy, the use of photonics, and astronomy education and outreach, in addition to further detailed discussions on the latest scientific instruments and individual detectors. The book is written in a very accessible manner, and most of the mathematics is accessible to those who have attended a mathematics course in their final years at school. Nevertheless, the treatment of the topics in general is at a sufficiently high level to be of use to those professionals seeking technical information in areas of astronomy with which they might not be completely familiar.
650 _aAstronomical instruments
650 _aAstrophysics -- Technique
650 _aImaging systems in astronomy
650 _aAstronomy -- Technique
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999 _c566641
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