Benne Holwerda

Galaxy Morphology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the descriptions developed by astronomy to describe the appearance of galaxies, primarily in optical, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths. These descriptions range from galaxy-wide down to clumps of stars and the phenomena on scales in between. The book also covers qualitative classification using descriptions of the light distributions. Common caveats and biases are discussed in each chapter with the technique presented. The book also covers some of the near-future techniques that are expected to play a role as astronomy moves to surveys of millions of galaxies and to depths that are dominated by low-surface-brightness. Each chapter is accompanied by an appropriate Jupyter Notebook Python programming assignment. The book is aimed at the graduate student level for researchers in need to a review of galaxy morphology techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750334990
• Artikelnr.: 63266900

Autorenporträt

Benne Holwerda is an associate professor at the University of Louisville, and is a leading expert in astronomical source catalogues and object characterization. He has worked on several projects that involve galaxy morphology classification and characterization; the Spitzer Survey of Spiral Structure in Galaxies, the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey and the GHOSTS survey which explore extremes of low surface brightness. He authored the application of galaxy morphometrics on HI images.