Harold A. McAlister

Seeing the Unseen (eBook, ePUB)

Mount Wilson's role in high angular resolution astronomy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For a century, Mount Wilson Observatory has played a key role in the development of high angular resolution astronomy, primarily through stellar interferometry. Today, it is home to one of the world's highest resolution optical/infrared interferometers - the CHARA Array. This book tells the story of the origin of stellar interferometry and its subsequent development on Mount Wilson, and of the people who worked and advanced the field at the observatory. CHARA founder and principal investigator for three decades, Harold A McAlister also served for 12 years as the director of Mount Wilson Observatory. His first-hand knowledge provides an excellent history of stellar interferometry, detailing the instruments and methods as well as how they have evolved over the course of the last hundred years at the observatory. Two appendices describe why Mount Wilson remains an important site for interferometry along with an interferometry primer. It is essential reading for both historians and astronomers, and anyone interested in the Mount Wilson legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750322089
• Artikelnr.: 60581454

Autorenporträt

Harold A McAlister is regents professor emeritus of astronomy at Georgia State University where he founded the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) in 1983 and served as its director until he retired in 2015. As principal investigator for the CHARA Array, he led the team that turned a dream into a reality when ground was broken on Mount Wilson on July 13 1996. During 2002-2014 he served pro bono as CEO of the Mount Wilson Institute and director of Mount Wilson Observatory.