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Geheimnisvoller Kosmos
Astrophysik und Kosmologie im 21. Jahrhundert
hrsg. Thomas Bührke und Roland Wengenmayr
2. Auflage mit neuen Beiträgen, 2012
ISBN 978-3-527-41071-2
Mehr als 4 Jahrhunderte liegen zwischen der ersten wissenschaftlichen Beobachtung Galileos mit einem kleinen Fernrohr und den heutigen astronomischen Großanlagen. Welche Fragen bewegen heute die Astronomen und mit welchen Instrumenten arbeiten sie? Artikel aus der bekannten Zeitschrift "Physik in unserer Zeit" sind hier zusammengefasst und durch ganzseitige Bilder ergänzt, die die Eckpunkte unseren Wissens verweisen. Empfehlenswert als "Bilderbuch" und als Einstieg in moderne astronomische Themen, die von Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftsjournalisten des deutschen Sprachraums kompetent dargestellt werden. |
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Introduction to Astronomical Photometry
by Edwin Budding and Osman Demircan
This book is mainly dedicated to photometry and to binary stars as typical photometrical targets. Exoplanets are not more than a foot note in this book, which was published in 2007 in a second edition. A very valuable part maybe the detailed bibliographical notes and the reference list at the end of each main chapter. Especially the bibliographical notes are useful to find literature at the appropriate level of interest and background. |
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Transiting Exoplanets
by Carole Haswell
Cambridge University Press 2010
335 pages,
ISBN 978-0-521-19183-8
This book presents the essential physics and methodology about transiting planets. It is an excellent start to understand the fast growing field of exoplanets, especially the transit method. Emphasis is given on the selection and the quality of the figures and pictures supporting the message of the text book. Each chapter is followed by excercises where the detailed solutions are given in the appendix. Therefore the book may be used for self study as well as for preparing for examinations. |
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A Practival Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis
by Brian D. Warner
Springer Verlag
2006
ISBN-10: 0-387-29365-5
Before you can take images, you should understand some of the fundamentals about photometry. That is what this book offers to reader. What is the theory of photometric reduction and what are the actual steps to reduce your raw magnitudes to a standard system? What do have to keep in mind when buying camera control software? How can you assess the quality of the data? The astronomical objects of interest in this books are mainly asteroids and variable stars, but also extrasolar planets are mentioned, which were less numerous when the book was published in 2006. |
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Astronomical Spectroscopy
by Jonathan Tennyson
2nd Edition, 2011
ISBN 978-981-4291-96-5
Nearly all information about the Universe comes from the study of light. However, understanding the information requires both telescopes capable of resolving it into its component colours and a detailed knowledge of the quantum mechanical behaviour of atoms molecules. This book follows closely a lecture course the author gave to third-year undergraduate students at University College London. Only a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom is necessary to benefit from this introduction to the atomic and molecular physics of astronomical spectra. |
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