Overview
- Explains concepts and serves as hands-on manual for preparing and executing astronomy projects in the NIR
- Presents observing strategies to maximize scientific return
- Gives a comprehensive summary of steps for an in-depth data reduction
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 467)
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Near-infrared astronomy has become one of the most rapidly developing branches in modern astrophysics. Innovative observing techniques, near-infrared detectors with quantum efficiencies in excess of 90%, highly specialised instruments as well as advanced data reduction techniques have allowed major breakthroughs in various areas like exoplanets, star-forming regions, the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center, and the high-redshift Universe.
In this book, the reader will be introduced to the basic concepts of how to prepare near-infrared observations with maximized scientific return. Equal weight is given to all aspects of the data reduction for both - imaging and spectroscopy. Information is also provided on the state of the art instrumentation available and planned, on detector technology or the physics of the atmosphere, all of which influence the preparation and execution of observations and data reduction techniques. The beginner but also the expert will find alot of information in compact form which is otherwise widely dispersed across the internet or other sources.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jochen Heidt obtained his PhD in 1994 at the University of Heidelberg and has been working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg as research associate since then. His scientific interests are radiation processes, host galaxies and cluster environment of radio-loud AGN, high-redshift galaxy evolution as well as NIR instrumentation. He worked as instrument scientist for the LUCI project at the Large Binocular Telescope between 2010 and 2018 and was in charge of the commissioning of the instruments. The LUCI instruments are an identical pair of NIR imager and multi-object spectrographs operating in seeing-limited and diffraction-limited mode at the Large Binocular Telescope. In addition he is regularly teaching the astrolab at the University of Heidelberg and attends observing schools as tutor and teacher.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomy in the Near-Infrared - Observing Strategies and Data Reduction Techniques
Authors: Jochen Heidt
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98441-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98440-3Published: 05 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98443-4Published: 05 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98441-0Published: 04 July 2022
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 291
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Coding and Information Theory