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| Preface | |
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| Light | |
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| The story | |
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| The evidence: astronomical data | |
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| Models for the behavior of light | |
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| Measurements of light rays | |
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| Spectra | |
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| Magnitudes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Uncertainty | |
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| Accuracy and precision | |
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| Populations and samples | |
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| Probability distributions | |
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| Estimating uncertainty | |
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| Propagation of uncertainty | |
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| Additional topics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Place, time, and motion | |
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| Astronomical coordinate systems | |
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| The third dimension | |
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| Time | |
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| Motion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Names, catalogs, and databases | |
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| Star names | |
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| Names and catalogs of non-stellar objects outside the Solar System | |
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| Objects at non-optical wavelengths | |
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| Atlases and finding charts | |
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| Websites and other computer resources | |
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| Solar System objects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Optics for astronomy | |
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| Principles of geometric optics | |
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| Lenses, mirrors, and simple optical elements | |
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| Simple telescopes | |
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| Image quality: telescopic resolution | |
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| Aberrations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Astronomical telescopes | |
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| Telescope mounts and drives | |
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| Reflecting telescope optics | |
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| Telescopes in space | |
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| Ground-based telescopes | |
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| Adaptive optics | |
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| The next stage: ELTs and advanced AO | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Matter and light | |
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| Isolated atoms | |
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| Isolated molecules | |
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| Solid-state crystals | |
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| Photoconductors | |
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| The MOS capacitor | |
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| The p--n junction | |
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| The vacuum photoelectric effect | |
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| Superconductivity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Detectors | |
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| Detector characterization | |
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| The CCD | |
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| Photo-emissive devices | |
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| Infrared arrays | |
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| Thermal detectors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Digital images from arrays | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Digital image manipulation | |
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| Preprocessing array data: bias, linearity, dark, flat, and fringe | |
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| Combining images | |
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| Digital aperture photometry | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Photometry | |
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| Introduction: a short history | |
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| The response function | |
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| The idea of a photometric system | |
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| Common photometric systems | |
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| From source to telescope | |
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| The atmosphere | |
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| Transformation to a standard system | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Spectrometers | |
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| Dispersive spectrometry | |
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| Dispersing optical elements | |
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| Spectrometers without slits | |
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| Basic slit and fiber spectrometers | |
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| Spectrometer design for astronomy | |
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| Spectrometric data | |
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| Interpreting spectra | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Appendices | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |