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Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with Ukirt: The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with Ukirt: The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

Adamson, Andy
Davies, John
Robson, E. Ian

Hardcover

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Book 37

Astronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 9400774311
ISBN13: 9789400774315
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 12 2013
Pages: 341
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.

The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. The first part of the book has 10 thorough reviews of the conception, design and build of the telescope, as well as accounts of some its key instruments such as IRCAM (the common-user infrared camera), CGS4 (the fourth Cooled Grating Spectrometer) and the Wide Field Camera. The second part of the book comprises 14 reviews of scientific achievements during its twenty years of visitor mode operations. The final part of the book is a series of 7 reviews of the results from the multiple surveys being done as part of UKIDSS (UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey).

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