Instrumentation for large telescopes : VII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics

Drawing from a series of lectures given at the VII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, this volume presents eight specially written chapters by leading experts in the world, covering all aspects of the peculiarities, advantages, and disadvantages of dealing with a new generation of large, ground-based telescopes that will be used well into the next century. In reviewing the challenges involved in designing successful instrumentation, this work also addresses the fundamentals of astronomical imaging, low- and high-resolution spectroscopy, and polarimetry. This book can be read profitably by advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as those in the fields of astronomy, optics, medicine, and defense. Contents......Page 8 Participants......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 16 Techniques For High Angular Resolution Astronomical Imaging......Page 18 Detectors and Data Analysis Techniques for Wide Field Optical Imaging......Page 52 Modern methods of image reconstruction......Page 92 Spectroscopic Techniques for Large Optical/IR Telescopes......Page 140 High Resolution Spectroscopy......Page 180 Near Infrared Instrumentation for Large Telescopes......Page 220 Mid-IR Astronomy with Large Telescopes......Page 258 Polarimetry with large telescopes......Page 304 Edited By J.m. Rodríguez Espinosa, A. Herrero, F. Sánchez. Includes Bibliographical References.