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Fundamentals of Astrometry Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Fundamentals of Astrometry By Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Fundamentals of Astrometry by Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)


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Astrometry encompasses all that is necessary to provide the positions and motions of celestial bodies. This includes observational techniques, instrumentation, processing and analysis of observational data, reference systems and frames, and the resulting astronomical phenomena. This comprehensive reference will be invaluable for graduate students and research astronomers.

Fundamentals of Astrometry Summary

Fundamentals of Astrometry by Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Astrometry encompasses all that is necessary to provide the positions and motions of celestial bodies. This includes observational techniques, instrumentation, processing and analysis of observational data, reference systems and frames, and the resulting astronomical phenomena. Astrometry is fundamental to all other fields of astronomy, from the pointing of telescopes, to navigation and guidance systems, to distance and motion determinations for astrophysics. In the last few decades, new observational techniques have enabled improvements in accuracy by orders of magnitude. Starting from basic principles, this book provides the fundamentals for this new astrometry at milli- and micro-arcsecond accuracies. Topics include: basics of general relativity; co-ordinate systems; vectors, tensors, quaternions, and observational uncertainties; determination and use of the celestial and terrestrial reference systems and frames; applications of new observational techniques; present and future star catalogues and double star astrometry. This comprehensive reference will be invaluable for graduate students and research astronomers.

About Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Kenneth Seidelmann is a Research Professor in the Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia. Until 2000, was Director of Astrometry of the U.S. Naval Observatory, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland. Jean Kovalevsky is an Associate (retired) Astronomer of the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Geodynamiques et Astronomiques (CERGA), at the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France. He is President of the International Committee of Weights and Measures and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. New observational techniques; 3. Basic principles and coordinate systems; 4. Treatment of astronomical data; 5. Principles of relativity; 6. Apparent displacements of celestial objects; 7. Extragalactic reference frame; 8. Dynamical reference frame; 9. Terrestrial coordinate systems; 10. Earth orientation; 11. Stars; 12. Double and multiple star systems; 13. Astronomical phenomena; 14. Application of theory to observations; Appendices.

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NPB9780521642163
9780521642163
0521642167
Fundamentals of Astrometry by Jean Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2004-06-03
422
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