Introduction to Astronomical Photometry [E-Book] / by M. Golay.
The material given in this 'Introduction to astronomical photometry' is the subject matter of a lecture at the University of Geneva. It is, therefore, intended for those students, physicists or mathematicians, who have completed their bachelor's degree or diploma, and are intending to...
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Personal Name(s): | Golay, M., author |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
1974
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Physical Description: |
IX, 366 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9789401021692 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-94-010-2169-2 |
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Astrophysics and Space Science Library, A Series of Books on the Recent Developments of Space Science and of General Geophysics and Astrophysics Published in Connection with the Journal Space Science Reviews ;
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- 1. General Definitions and Energy Distribution for Various Spectral Types
- 1.1. Definition of Photometric Measurement, A Special Case of Astronomical Measurement
- 1.2. Description of the Energy Distribution in Stellar Spectra
- 1.3. Characteristic Physical Parameters of the Continuous Energy Distribution
- 1.4. Characteristic Parameters of the Energy Distribution
- 1.5. The Importance of Lines in Photometric Measurement
- 1.6. Distribution of the Fraction of Energy Absorbed in the Lines
- 1.7. The Importance of Accuracy when Making Measurements in Astronomical Photometry
- 1.8. Interstellar Absorption Law Deduced from Spectrophotometry
- 2. Photometric Measurements, Effects of Bandwidths and Interstellar Absorption
- 2.1. Characteristic Parameters of a Photometric System
- 2.2. Atmospheric Extinction Correction. Role of the Bandwidth
- 2.3. Effect of Bandwidth on Corrections for Interstellar Extinction
- 2.4. Effects of the Bandwidth and the Form of Extinction Law on Ratios of the Type Eu/Ey
- 2.5. Effects of Various Extinction Laws and Bandwidths on Ratios of the Type Av/Ey
- 2.6. Relationships between Heterochromatic Magnitudes Obtained from Two Similar Systems
- 2.7. Relationships between the Colour Indices of Two Similar Photometric Systems
- 2.8. Comparison oF The Ratios Eu/Ey and Av/Ey for Two Similar Photometric Systems
- 3. Two-Dimensional Photometric Representations of Stars
- 3.1. Relationship between Colour Indices and Gradients
- 3.2. Colour Index and the Balmer Discontinuity
- 3.3. Two-Dimensional Photometric Representation of Stars: Introduction to the UBV System
- 3.4. Interstellar Reddening Lines in the UBV Diagram
- 3.5. Position of the Black-Body and other Radiation Laws in the UBV Diagram
- 3.6. Effect of Binarity in UBV Diagrams
- 3.7. Dispersion Caused by Rotation
- 3.8. Blocking and Blanketing Effects inUBV
- 4. Multi-Colour and Wide-Band Photometry
- 4.1. Comparison between the UBV and RGU Systems
- 4.2. Information Growth by Increasing the Number of Passbands
- 4.3. Description of Energy Distributions Using a Photometry Having n Wide Passbands
- 4.4. Use of Multi-Colour Photometric Systems in Describing the Interstellar Extinction Law
- 4.5. Introduction of Linear Combinations of Indices
- 4.6. Linear Combination of Heterochromatic Indices and Interstellar Extinction Effects
- 4.7. The Q Parameter of theUBV System
- 4.8. The [d], [?] and [g] Parameters of the U B V B1B2V1G Photometric System
- 5. Intermediate and Narrow Passband Photometry
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Narrow Band Photometry, Centred upon Hydrogen Lines
- 5.3. Narrow Band Photometry Centred upon Hydrogen Lines
- 5.4. Narrow Band Photometry Centred upon Lines and Bands other than Hydrogen
- 5.5. Intermediate Passband Photometry
- 5.6. Intermediate Passband Photometry
- 5.7. Intermediate Passband Photometry
- 5.8. Intermediate Passband Photometry
- 5.9. Intermediate Passband Photometry
- 5.10. Notes on Narrow and Intermediate Band Photometry of Molecular Bands and Groups of Lines
- 6. Photometric Parameters and their Correlation With Basic Parameters Describing the Physical State of Stellar Atmospheres
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Effective Temperature Parameters
- 6.3. Effective Temperature and Gravity Using Models - Case of Hot Stars
- 6.4. Adjustment of Models Using Colour Indices
- 6.5. Determination of the Shape of the Passbands of Intermediate and Wide Filter Systems
- 6.6. Notes on the Fitting of Models Using Colour Indices
- 6.7. Discussion of the Properties of a Photometric System Using Stellar Atmosphere Models. Vectorial Representation
- 6.8. Calibration of Photometric Diagrams
- 6.9. Calibration of Photometric Diagrams
- 6.10. Calibration of Photometric Diagrams
- 7. Photometry Applied to Various Stellar Objects
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. O Star Photometry
- 7.3. A Few Remarks about the Photometry of Ap Stars and Their Variability
- 7.4. Sub-Dwarf Photometry
- 7.5. Peculiar Cool Stars, such as Barium, CH and Carbon Stars
- 7.6. Cool Star Photometry
- 7.7. UBV Diagrams of some other Objects; QSS, White Dwarfs, Seyfert Nuclei, N Galaxies, Pulsars
- 7.8. Photometry of Galaxies
- 7.9. Photometry of Globular Clusters
- 7.10. On the Photometry of RR Lyrae-Type Variables
- 7.11. UBV Photometry of the Sun
- 7.12. Photometric Catalogues and Bibliographic Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.