Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys : Proceedings of the Les Houches School, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 20-24 September, 1993 / edited by N. Epchtein, A. Omont, B. Burton, P. Persi.
Outstanding progress in near-infrared detection technology and in real-time image processing has led astronomers to start undertaking all-sky surveys in the 1--2 mum range (project DENIS in Europe and 2MASS in the U.S.A.), surveys which will have a considerable impact in various areas of astronomy....
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| Other title: | Proceedings of the Les Houches School, September 20--24, 1993, Centre de Physique des Houches, France. |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Outstanding progress in near-infrared detection technology and in real-time image processing has led astronomers to start undertaking all-sky surveys in the 1--2 mum range (project DENIS in Europe and 2MASS in the U.S.A.), surveys which will have a considerable impact in various areas of astronomy. This book gathers the contributions of more than 80 specialists involved in fields of interest as different as low mass stars, late stages of stellar evolution, star formation, stellar populations of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds, the local structure of the Universe, and observational cosmology. It describes the impact on these fields of the exhaustive data bases and catalogs of stars and galaxies that these surveys will provide. The considerable interest of these documents for the future of infrared space and ground-based projects and the complementarity with other currently ongoing or planned surveys in other spectral ranges are emphasized. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789401109468 940110946X 0792330293 9780792330295 9789401044080 9401044082 |