Seeing the unseen : Mount Wilson's role in high angular resolution astronomy

• Tác giả: Institute of Physics (Great Britain), Harold A McAlister
• ISBN-13: 978-0750322072
• ISBN-13: 978-0750322089
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 522.682 Radio astronomy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (some color).
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 160941
• Chủ đề: 1. Radio interferometers--History--California; 2. Very long baseline interferometry--History--California; 3. History of science; 4. SCIENCE / Astronomy

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

This book provides a detailed history of stellar interferometry as practised at Mount Wilson Observatory. It covers the origin of the field in the early 19th Century, and its subsequent development throughout the last hundred years at the Observatory, including the people, instruments, and methods involved in advancing high angular resolution astronomy. Additionally, two extensive Appendices cover the importance of Mount Wilson today as well as an interferometry primer. It is an excellent book for historians, astronomers and anyone interested in Mount Wilson.