Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy (eBook)

Roland Bacon, Guy Monnet (Autoren)

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2017
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
978-3-527-67484-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Over the last 50 years, a variety of techniques have been developed to add a third dimension to regular imaging, with an extended spectrum associated to every imaging pixel. Dubbed 3D spectroscopy from its data format, it is now widely used in the astrophysical domain, but also inter alia for atmospheric sciences and remote sensing purposes.
This is the first book to comprehensively tackle these new capabilities. It starts with the fundamentals of spectroscopic instruments, in particular their potentials and limits. It then reviews the various known 3D techniques, with particular emphasis on pinpointing their different `ecological? niches. Putative users are finally led through the whole observing process, from observation planning to the extensive ? and crucial - phase of data reduction.
This book overall goal is to give the non-specialist enough hands-on knowledge to learn fast how to properly use and produce meaningful data when using such a 3D capability.
DAS Referenzwerk mit aktuellen Informationen zu 3D-Spektrographen, die bei astronomischen Beobachtungen weit verbreitet sind, beschäftigt sich mit Licht im sichtbaren Nah-Infrarot- und Nah-UV-Bereich, erläutert die besten Beobachtungsstrategien und Instrumente und zeigt, wie die erzielten Daten verwaltet werden.

Autor

Roland Bacon is astrophysicist, directeur de recherche au CNRS and former director of the Lyon Observatory (1994-2004). He has played a pioneering role in the development of integral field spectroscopy as leader of 4 major and innovative instruments for ground based telescope: TIGER and OASIS at the 3.6m Canada France Hawaii telescope, SAURON at the 4.2m William Herschel telescope and MUSE at the 8m ESO Very Large Telescope. His main research field is extragalactic astronomy. He is the owner since 2014 of an advanced grant from the European Research Commission. Guy Monnet is an astrophysicist, with 50-year experience of developing astronomical instrumentation, on the ground and in space, mostly with a 3D spectroscopic flavor. Successively, he was director of the Marseilles Observatory, Lyon Observatory and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Corporation. He then took the position of Head of Instrumentation at the European Southern Observatory (1995-2009) and the Australian Astrophysical Observatory (2010-2011). His main scientific domain is the dynamics of stars and ionized gas in galaxies.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

Part 1: 3D Instrumentation


2 The Spectroscopic Toolbox
2.1 Basic Spectroscopic Principles
2.2 Optics & Coatings
2.3 Detectors
2.4 Interferometers
2.5 Dispersers
2.6 Mechanics & Cryogenics, Electronics
2.7 Management, Timeline & Cost
2.8 Exercises


3 Scanning Spectrographs
3.1 Scanning Long-­-Slit Spectrograph
3.2 Scanning Fabry-­-Perot Spectrograph
3.3 Scanning Fourier Transform Spectrograph
3.4 Exercises


4 Integral Field Spectrographs
4.1 Lenslet-­-based Integral Field Spectrograph
4.2 Fiber-­-based Integral Field Spectrograph
4.3 Slicer-­-based Integral Field Spectrograph
4.4 Exercises


5 New Trends in Integral Field Spectroscopy
5.1 Deployable Multi-­-object Integral Field Spectrograph
5.2 Paving the Field: parallel replicated Instruments
5.3 An Example: Autopsy of the MUSE wide-­-field Spectrograph
5.4 Exercises

6 Future Trends in 3D Spectroscopy
6.1 Photonics-­-based Spectrographs
6.2 Quest for the Grail: towards 3D Detectors
6.3 Exercises

Part 2: Using 3D Spectroscopy

7 Data Properties
7.1 Data Sampling
7.2 Noise Properties

8 Impact of Atmospheric Turbulence
8.1 Basic Principles
8.2 Seeing-­-limited Observations
8.3 Adaptive Optics Observations
8.4 Space-­-based Observations

9 Data Gathering
9.1 Planning Observations
9.2 Estimating Observing Time
9.3 Observing Strategy

10 Data Reduction
10.1 Basics
10.2 Specific Cases

11 Data Analysis
11.1 Kinematics
11.2 Spectrophotometry
11.3 Crowded Fields
11.4 Faint Point-­-like Sources
11.5 Faint Surface brightness Sources
11.6 Spatial Deconvolution
11.7 High Contrast Imaging

12 Conclusions

Bibliography

Annex 1: Hints to Exercises

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Astronomie • Astronomie u. Astrophysik • Astronomy • Astronomy & Astrophysics • Astrophysik • Chemie • Chemistry • earth sciences • Fernerkundung • fiberbased • Foreword • Geowissenschaften • GIS & Remote Sensing • GIS u. Fernerkundung • History • multiobject • multislitbased multiobject • Part • Physics • Physik • Scientific • Spectroscopic • spectroscopy • Spektroskopie • Technology • xi emergence
• ISBN-10: 3-527-67484-5 / 3527674845
• ISBN-13: 978-3-527-67484-8 / 9783527674848