Digitised Optical Sky Surveys (eBook, PDF)

Proceedings of the Conference on 'Digitised Optical Sky Surveys', Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18-21 June 1991
Redaktion: Macgillivray, H. T.; Thomson, E. B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Astronomical photographs contain an enormous amount of information. This presents extremely interesting problems when one wishes to produce digitised sky atlases, to archive the digitised material, to develop sophisticated devices to do the digitising, and to create software to procecc the vast amounts of data. All these activities are necessary to be able to do astronomy. One such activity is the important, large-scale optical identification of objects which also emit radiation at other wavelengths. Other activities of the past decade include a multiplicity of surveys that have been made on galaxies and clusters of galaxies. This book treats, in five sections, the existing and future surveys, their digitisation and their impact on astronomy. It is a reference for people in the field and for those who wish to engage in using or producing sky surveys.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401124720
• Artikelnr.: 44185035

Inhaltsangabe

Welcoming Address: Two thousand years of Optical Sky Surveys.- One: Sky Surveys and Calibration Programmes.- Current and Future Programmes with the UK Schmidt Telescope.- The Use of Eastman Kodak 4415 Film in the UK Schmidt Telescope.- The Chinese Large Schmidt Telescope Project.- The Deep 2-Micron Survey of the Southern Sky.- Next Generation Optical Sky Surveys.- Photometric Calibration of the Southern Sky Surveys.- The Second HST Guide Star Photometric Catalog.- Two: Digitisation Programmes - Current and Planned.- The COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky.- The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey.- Digitised Sky Surveys at the Space Telescope Science Institute.- The Selection of a Sampling Interval for Digitisation: How Fine is Fine Enough?.- The MAMA Facility: A Survey of Scientific Programmes.- ASTROSCAN II: The Next Leiden Microdensitometer.- A New Astrometric Measuring Machine: Design and Astronomical Programmes.- Hardware and Software Aspects of CCD Camera-Based Astrometric Plate Measurements.- SuperCOSMOS.- Real-Time Data Processing for SuperCOSMOS.- A Colour/Proper Motion Study of the Southern Sky - A Planned Digitisation Programme on SuperCOSMOS.- Three: Developments in Techniques - Compression, Astrometry, Photometry and Object Classification.- Developments in Compression Techniques for COSMOS/SuperCOSMOS Data.- Compression of the Guide Star Digitised Schmidt Plates.- Proper Motions of M.A.S./Year Accuracy with Photographic Schmidt Plates.- Updating the AGK3 Reference Star Catalog with Astrometrically Reduced Schmidt Plates.- Calibration of Large Batches of Photographic Images.- An Automated Image Measuring System.- Automated Morphological Classification of Faint Galaxies.- Automated Star/Galaxy Discrimination with NeuralNetworks.- A Comparison of Star/Galaxy Classification Approaches on Digitised Poss-II Plates.- Automated Stellar Spectral Classification VIA Statistical Moments.- Four: Astronomy from Large Scale Digitised Surveys.- Asteroid Searches from UKST Material.- UBV Star Counts in Selected Area 54, and Global Structure of the Galaxy.- A Search for Macroscopic Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo through Microlensing.- A Deep Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades for Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs.- The Absolute Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster M3.- The Structure and Stellar Content of the Small Magellanic Cloud.- The Variable Star System of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.- Normal Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster.- Surveys for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies.- The APM Bright Galaxy Surveys.- The APM Cluster Redshift Survey.- Galaxy Correlation Function Constraints on Largescale Structure.- The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue.- The ROE/NRL Cluster Catalog: I. Correlation with Southern Abell Clusters.- The ROE/NRL Cluster Catalog: II. Correlation with Serendipitous Einstein X-Ray Sources.- An Automated Search for Compact Groups of Galaxies.- The Münster Redshift Project - MRPS.- A ~ 700 Galaxy Magnitude-Limited Redshift Survey near the SGP.- The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey.- Extended Structure in the 3-D Galaxy Distribution at the Galactic Poles.- A Homogeneous Bright Quasar Survey.- The Edinburgh Multi-Colour Survey for Quasars.- APM Surveys for High Redshift Quasars.- Large Groups of Quasars.- Five: Optical Identification Programmes using Digitised Surveys.- The Identification of Potential Counterparts to X-Ray Binaries using COSMOS.- The Einstein Slew Survey Catalog.- The Rosat all-Sky Survey and First Identifications of X- RaySources using Digitised Optical Plates.- Optical Identification of X-Ray Sources from Digitised Sky Survey Plates.- Optical Identification of Sources in the IRAS Faint Source Database.- Optical Identification of the New Parkes/MIT/NRAO Radio Sources from Digitised Sky Survey Data.- Discussion Meeting.- Conference Overview and Concluding Remarks.- Author Index.- Object Index.