Fundamental Astronomy

by Karttunen, Hannu

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Full title :Fundamental Astronomy / edited by Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kröger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner.

Summary

This well balanced and comprehensive book can serve both as an introduction to astronomy and astrophysics for science majors and a reference for practicing astronomers, for whom it will provide the needed background to understand material outside their range of expertise. Topics covered include: spherical astronomy; basic astronomical observations; radiative processes; celestial mechanics; the Solar System; stellar spectra, structure and evolution; the interstellar medium galaxies; and cosmology. Appendices provide some of the mathematical methods used in the book as well as physical and astronomical data and other useful information. "No one involved in astronomy teaching or research would want to be without a copy." #The Physics Teacher#"Offers a range of expertise and authority impossible for a single-author text ..." #Nature# "Fundamental ideas are developed clearly and applied to real problems, and solutions are worked out; this is the book's strength." #Sky & Telescope#.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1987.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint, Springer, Springer New York
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:1987.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (XIII, 478 pages 399 illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781461231608, 1461231604, 9780387975672, 0387975675
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-3160-8
oclc:ocn840279229
LC Classification:QB4
Dewey Decimal:520

1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Role of Astronomy -- 1.2 Astronomical Objects of Research -- 1.3 The Scale of the Universe -- 2. Spherical Astronomy -- 2.1 Spherical Trigonometry -- 2.2 The Earth -- 2.3 The Celestial Sphere -- 2.4 The Horizontal System -- 2.5 The Equatorial System -- 2.6 The Ecliptic System -- 2.7 The Galactic Coordinates -- 2.8 Perturbations of Coordinates -- 2.9 Constellations -- 2.10 Star Catalogues and Maps -- 2.11 Positional Astronomy -- 2.12 Time Reckoning -- 2.13 Astronomical Time Systems -- 2.14 Calendars -- 2.15 Exercises -- 3. Observations and Instruments -- 3.1 Observing Through the Atmosphere -- 3.2 Optical Telescopes -- 3.3 Detectors -- 3.4 Radio Telescopes -- 3.5 Other Wavelength Regions -- 3.6 Instruments of the Future -- 3.7 Other Forms of Energy -- 3.8 Exercises -- 4. Photometric Concepts and Magnitudes -- 4.1 Intensity, Flux Density and Luminosity -- 4.2 Apparent Magnitudes -- 4.3 Magnitude Systems -- 4.4 Absolute Magnitudes -- 4.5 Extinction and Optical Thickness -- 4.6 Exercises -- 5. Radiation Mechanisms -- 5.1 Radiation of Atoms and Molecules -- 5.2 The Hydrogen Atom -- 5.3 Quantum Numbers, Selection Rules, Population Numbers -- 5.4 Molecular Spec…