Unveiling the Cosmic Infrared Background: Proceedings of the Conference on Unveiling the Cosmic Infrared Background, College Park, MD, 1995

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dwek, Eli, Author.

Contributor:

Dwek, Eli, editor.

Series:

AIP conference proceedings ; 348.

AIP conference proceedings ; 348

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmic background radiation--Congresses.

Cosmic background radiation.

Infrared astronomy--Congresses.

Infrared astronomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 354 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Cobe Workshop

The Cobe Workshop: Unveiling The Cosmic Infrared Background, Volume 348

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] American Institute of Physics 2000

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is intended for physicists with a specific research interest in the solar system, the Universe and galactic and extragalactic objects, as well as researchers in astrophysics, cosmology and astronomy.

Contents:

Preface / E. Dwek

How Should We Teach Science and What Should We Teach? / M. Harwit

Cosmology and the Cosmic Infrared Background Radiation / P.J.E. Peebles

Searching for the Cosmic Infrared Background / M.G. Hauser

The Origin and Dynamics of the Interplanetary Dust Cloud / S.F. Dermott, S. Jayaraman, Y.L. Xu, K. Grogan and B.A.S. Gustafson

DIRBE Observations of the Zodiacal Light / W.T. Reach, B.A. Franz, T. Kelsall and J.L. Weiland

COBE-DIRBE Observations of the Earth's Resonant Ring / S. Jayaraman and S.F. Dermott

Solar System Objects and Extragalactic Background Light / C. Leinert

Deep Star Counts and Cosmological Backgrounds: A Powerful New Model for the Point Source Sky / M. Cohen

The Interstellar Dust Contribution to the Diffuse Infrared Sky Brightness / J.L. Weiland, R.G. Arendt and T.J. Sodroski

Exploring the Infrared Stellar Populations of the Galaxy with DENIS / S. Ruphy and N. Epchtein.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-56396-508-9