Experimental astrophysics / Elia Stefano Battistelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battistelli, Elia Stefano, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

AAS-IOP astronomy. 2021 collection.

AAS-IOP astronomy. [2021 collection], 2514-3433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrophysics--Technique.

Astrophysics.

Astrophysics--Experiments.

Astronomical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Elia Battistelli is an experimental astrophysicist and cosmologist working on several aspects of astrophysics, including the study of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Battistelli is currently Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches the Astrophysics Laboratory course for third-year bachelor physics students and the General Physics course for biotechnology students in the Medicine faculty. In Battistelli's research, he develops radio-frequency, microwave, and millimeter/submillimeter instrumentation for millimeter astronomy and CMB observations and data analysis.

Summary:

We are now living in the multimessenger era in which often weak and elusive astrophysical phenomena need to be studied using different and orthogonal probes and information carriers in order to be fully understood. This book is designed to give advanced undergraduate students a description of the most popular techniques and instrumentation employed in modern astrophysics.

Contents:

1. Astrophysical observables

1.1. Astrophysical information carriers

1.2. Cosmic rays

1.3. Meteorites

1.4. Cosmic dust

1.5. Gravitational waves

1.6. Neutrinos

1.7. Dark matter

2. Astronomical optics

2.1. Electromagnetic waves

2.2. Observables

2.3. Geometrical optics : Snell's law

2.4. Lenses and mirrors

2.5. Diffraction and interference

3. Telescopes

3.1. Diffraction-limited telescopes or not?

3.2. Refractive telescopes

3.3. Reflective telescopes

3.4. Telescope mounts

3.5. Telescopes construction

3.6. X-ray telescopes

4. Signal processing

4.1. Fourier transform

4.2. Transmission lines

4.3. Digital versus analog signals : ADC and DAC

4.4. Quantization

4.5. Sampling : Nyquist-Shannon theorem

5. Semiconductor Physics

5.1. Semiconductors and junctions

5.2. Diodes

5.3. Photomultipliers and their use in astrophysics

5.4. Junction-gate field-effect transistors

5.5. Transistors

5.6. Operational amplifier

6. Detectors in astronomy

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Coherent detectors

6.3. Thermal detectors

6.4. Quantum detectors

6.5. X-ray detectors

6.6. Detector characteristics

7. Read-out electronics

7.1. Read-out electronics

7.2. Multiplexing

7.3. Read-out of a CCD

7.4. Feedback loop

8. Noise and its origin

8.1. Autocorrelation function and power spectrum

8.2. Brownian noise

8.3. Kinds of noise

9. Cryogenics

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Cryogens (liquids)

9.3. Thermal inputs

9.4. Vacuum pumps

9.5. Cryostats and their cool down

9.6. Mechanical cryocoolers

9.7. Sub-kelvin refrigerators

10. Spectroscopy

10.1. The importance of spectroscopy

10.2. Broadband photometry

10.3. Prism

10.4. Grating

10.5. Fourier transform spectrometer

11. Polarization

11.1. The importance of polarization measurements

11.2. Stokes parameters

11.3. Polarization at radio frequencies

11.4. Polarization at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths

11.5. Optical polarization

11.6. X-ray polarization

11.7. Martin-Pupplet interferometer

12. Signal extraction from noise and calibration

12.1. Signal extraction from noise : filters and amplifiers

12.2. Modulation

12.3. Lock-in amplifiers

12.4. Modulations in astrophysics

12.5. CCD calibration.

Notes:

"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 8, 2021).

ISBN:

9780750331180

0750331186

9780750331197

0750331194

OCLC:

1280155114