Astronomy at High Angular Resolution

This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable developments in such techniques, which are critical to advances in many areas of astronomy. As reflected in the book, these techniques can be divided into direct methods, interferometry, and reconstruction methods, and can be applied to a huge variety of astrophysical systems, ranging from planets, single stars and binaries to active galactic nuclei, providing angular resolution in the micro- to tens of milliarcsecond scales. Written by experts in their fields, the chapters cover adaptive optics, aperture masking imaging, spectra disentangling, interferometry, lucky imaging, Roche tomography, imaging with interferometry, interferometry of AGN, AGN reverberation mapping, Doppler- and magnetic imaging of stellar surfaces, Doppler tomography, eclipse mapping, Stokes imaging, and stellar tomography.

This book is intended to enable a next generation of astronomers to apply high-resolution techniques. It informs readers on how to achieve the best angular resolution in the visible and near-infrared regimes from diffraction-limited to micro-arcsecond scales.

Covers in a comprehensive way all of the astronomical high-angular resolution techniques that will become more and more important Prepares a next generation of astronomers on how to apply high-resolution techniques Informs readers how to achieve micro-arcsecond angular resolution Updates and puts in a broader context the seminal book by Boffin et al. (2001) - Astrotomography

Autorentext
The editors of the book, H.M.J. Boffin, J.P. Berger, G. Hussain, and K. Schmidtobreick, all ESO staff, are experts in high-resolution astronomy. H. Boffin has extensive experience in editing books, including Astrotomography in the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Physics (2004) and The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars published in the Springer series Astrophysics and Space Science Library (2015).

Inhalt
Introduction by the editors.- Adaptive optics.- Aperture masking imaging.- Disentangling of stellar spectra.- Interferometry.- Lucky Imaging.- Roche tomography.- Spectro-astrometry.- Astrotomography of planets.- Adaptive optics of planets & disks.- Stellar surfaces with interferometry.- The Galactic Centre at high-angular resolution.- AGN interferometry.- AGN reverberation mapping.- Doppler and Magnetic Imaging of Stellar Surfaces.- Doppler Tomography.- Doppler Tomography of Polars.- Doppler Imaging of cool stars and brown dwarfs.- Eclipse Mapping.- Stokes Imaging.