The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens

✍ Scribed by Gibilisco, Stan

• Book ID: 127457692
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Year: 2011;2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Series: Demystified
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780071384278
• DOI: 10.1036/0071412131

✦ Synopsis

First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive review of the detection techniques that are used in X-ray astronomy. Since the first discovery of a cosmic X-ray source in 1962, there has been rapid growth in X-ray astronomy, which has largely been made possible by enormous advances in the capabilities of photon counting instrumentation. The book describes the first 25 years of astronomical X-ray instrumentation and summarises the areas of current detector research, giving particular emphasis to imaging devices and to non-dispersive devices of high spectral resolution. It is the first book to give such a comprehensive treatment of the subject, and will provide astronomers with a valuable summary of detection techniques

✦ Subjects

Астрономия и астрофизика