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9781402009518

The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-07-01
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

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An invaluable reference for any student, scientist or administrator, using small telescopes for research. An essential collection of data and opinions for those charged with setting scientific and funding priorities. This three-volume set, The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium details the essential roles that small telescopes should play in 21st century science and how their future productivity can be maximized. Over 70 experts from all corners of the international astronomical community have created a definitive reference on the present and future of "big science with small telescopes". Despite highly publicized closures of telescopes smaller than 4-m in aperture at national facilities and their omission from national science priority studies, the oft-lamented demise of the small telescope has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the future of these workhorses of astronomy will be brighter than ever if creative steps are taken now. This three-volume set defines essential roles that small telescopes should play in 21st century science and the ways in which a productive future for them can be realized. A wide cross-section of the astronomical community has contributed to a definitive assessment of the present and a vision for the future. Volume 1: Perceptions, Productivities and Policies:- Beginning with a summary of recent national scientific priority-setting efforts, Volume 1 examines the public's and the astronomical communities' own perceptions and misconceptions of small telescope productivity. These shape the future scientific research that will be done with telescopes smaller than 4-m in aperture and the number of astronomers that will have access to them. Volume 2: The Telescopes We Use:- Small cost-effective optical-, radio- and space-based facilities face similar problems in scientific prioritization and funding. Volume 2 highlights how current small facilities are evolving to meet the scientific priorities and economical realities of the 21st century through standardization of instrumentation, use of off-the-shelf technology, specialization, optical improvements, new modes of scheduling, automation, and internet access. Volume 3: Science in the Shadow of Giants:- What first-rank science can small telescopes contribute in the coming era of 30-m class giant telescopes? Volume 3 explores a broad selection of scientific initiatives, from planetary astronomy to cosmology, that are ideally suited for small telescopes. The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium is a fundamental resource for those looking to undertake new projects with small telescopes, for those that are responsible for their operation, and for those called upon to help set scientific priorities for the coming decade. It will be useful for the practicing researcher, mountain facility manager, science policy maker, and beginning graduate student.

Table of Contents

Preface iii
Small Telescopes in the New Millenium
1(6)
John Huchra
The Decade Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics
7(6)
Christopher F. McKee
Joseph H. Taylor
Community Perceptions of the Relative Worth of Large and Small Telescopes
13(8)
Leslie J. Sage
Funding of the Essential Synergy between Small and Large Telescopes
21(20)
Bruce Weaver
Small Telescopes: A Reporter's Perspective
41(8)
Robert Irion
The Productivity of Ground-Based Optical Telescopes of Various Apertures
49(6)
Christopher Benn
Sebastian F. Sanchez
Scientific Impact of Small Telescopes
55(10)
Helmut A. Abt
The Future Operation of European Medium-Sized Telescopes
65(20)
Roland Gredel
The Roles of Small Telescopes in a Virtual Observatory Environment
85(12)
George Djorgovski
Developing a Protocol and Implementing a Network for Ubiquitous Use of Telescopes Over the Internet: Remote Telescope Mark-up Language (RTML)
97(16)
Carl Pennypacker
Jon Aymon
Shawn Gordon
Robert Denny
Frederic Hessman
David Barnaby
Michel Boer
Nebosja Duric
Toshi Ebisuzaki
Gordon Spear
Vivian Hoette
Peter Mack
Small Telescopes in Astronomy Education
113(12)
John R. Percy
Big Glass on a Silicon Chip: The CLEA Project in the 21st Century
125(14)
Laurence A. Marschall
The International Small Telescope Cooperative (ISTeC)
139(8)
Gary D. Henson
Development, Construction, and Plans For Small Telescopes in Japan
147(20)
Takehikio Kuroda
Fumiaki Tsumuraya
Simultaneous and Parallel Use of Small Telescopes for Astronomical Photometry
167(8)
Kenji Tanabe
International Aspects Between Central Europe and Central Asia
175(14)
Juraj Zverko
GNAT -- A Global Network of Small Astronomical Telescopes
189(12)
David L. Crawford
Eric Craine
Roy Tucker
The International Perspective: From Small Astronomical Telescopes to the World Space Observatory
201(26)
Hans J. Haubold
Willem Wamsteker
Important Roles of Small Telescopes in Space
227(12)
Yoji Kondo
Telescope Performance: Past, Present, and Future
239(18)
Frank Melsheimer
The Potential of CCD-Based Amateur Spectroscopy
257(14)
Alan Holmes
Small Radio Telescopes
271(16)
Michael W. Castelaz
J. Donald Cline
Charles Osborne
Charting the Future of Small Telescopes: New Strategies for a New Decade
287(14)
Terry D. Oswalt
Index 301(36)
Preface iii
Small is as Small Does
1(22)
Virginia Trimble
The Future of Small, Inexpensive, Continuously Operating, Wide Field Cameras
23(14)
Robert J. Nemiroff
J. Bruce Rafert
The All Sky Automated Survey
37(12)
Grzegorz Pojmanski
The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
49(14)
Dafydd Wyn Evans
Astrometric Projects at the Bordeaux CCD Meridian Circle
63(4)
Christine Ducourant
Michel Rapaport
The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) Project and Beyond
67(8)
Norbert Zacharias
The Future of Automated Telescopes and the Bradford Robotic Telescopes
75(16)
John Baruch
The Liverpool and Faulkes Telescopes
91(20)
Andrew Newsam
David Carter
The Dutch Open Telescope
111(10)
Robert J. Rutten
Building a Global Education and Science System Based on Modest-Aperture Telescopes: The Hands On Universe System
121(6)
Carlton Pennypacker
Tim Barclay
The OTHER Keck Observatories
127(10)
Bruce Partridge
Priscilla J. Benson
The Sun from Big Bear
137(18)
Philip R. Goode
Carsten Denker
Haimin Wang
The Four-College Consortium and the Future of APT's
155(26)
Robert J. Dukes Jr.
Saul J. Adelman
The National Undergraduate Research Observatory
181(8)
Kathleen DeGioia Eastwood
Laurence Marschal
Advantages of Automated Observing with Small Telescopes
189(20)
Joel A. Eaton
Gregory W. Henry
Francis C. Fekel
Astronomy Back East: The Future of the University Telescope
209(10)
Daniel B. Caton
Research in a Virtual Astronomy Department: The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) and the Future of Small Telescopes
219(12)
Terry D. Oswalt
Matthew A. Wood
The CHARA Visible/IR Array on Mt. Wilson: Small Telescopes with Large Baselines
231(24)
S.T. Ridgway
H.A. McAlister
A Dedicated 1-Meter Telescope for High Precision Astrometric Sky Mapping of Faint Stars
255(14)
Christian de Vegt
Uwe Laux
Norbert Zacharias
AST/RO: A Small Submillimeter Telescope at the South Pole
269(16)
Antony A. Stark
The APO 3.5-m Remote Observing Program -- Present and Future
285(14)
Bruce Gillespie
Scientific Priorities and Scheduling of the UK Infrared Telescope in the Eight-Meter Era
299(10)
Andy Adamson
Small Radio Interferometer Arrays in Solar Physics
309(14)
Dale E. Gary
The Educational Role of Small Telescopes in Radio Astronomy
323(14)
J.E. Salah
P. Pratap
A.E.E. Rogers
Index 337(18)
Preface iii
Reflections on Past and Future Photometric Calibration Situations and the Role of Small Telescopes
1(10)
Arlo U. Landolt
Science of the Inner Planets from Small Ground-Based Telescopes
11(26)
Ann L. Sprague
Planetary Astronomy: Recent Advances and Future Discoveries with Small Aperture Telescopes
37(20)
Amy A. Simon-Miller
Nancy J. Chanover
Science With Very Small Telescopes (<2.4-meters): The NASA Deep Impact Mission's Small Telescope Science Program
57(20)
S.A. McLaughlin
L.A. McFadden
G. Emerson
Geographical Representation of Large and Small Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Discoveries and Observations
77(16)
John L. Remo
Finding High Priority Projects for Stellar Physics Through Spectroscopy
93(18)
C.J. Corbally
R.F. Garrison
R.O. Gray
The Nstars Project and Small Telescopes
111(12)
Todd J. Henry
Dana E. Backman
Jerry Blackwell
Takeshi Okimura
Sharon Jue
Speckle Interferometry with Small Telescopes
123(16)
Brian D. Mason
William I. Hartkopf
``Visual'' Binaries in the Twenty-First Century
139(16)
Elliott Horch
Imaging Exoplanets: The Role of Small Telescopes
155(18)
B.R. Oppenheimer
A. Sivaramakrishnan
R. B. Makidon
The Detection of Extrasolar Planets via the Transit Method
173(16)
Charles H. McGruder III
Steve B. Howell
Mark E. Everett
Big Planets with Small Telescopes
189(18)
Debra Ann Fischer
Variable Star Research with Small Telescopes
207(18)
Laszlo Szabados
Magnetic Activity and the Solar-Stellar Connection
225(20)
Christopher M. Johns-Krull
Jeff A. Valenti
The Whole Earth Telescope: International Adventures in Asteroseisomology
245(12)
Steven D. Kawaler
WIYN Open Cluster Study: The Next Generation
257(16)
Ata Sarajedini
Robert D. Mathieu
Imants Platais
Automated Spectral Surveys of Clusters and Field Stars
273(8)
Ted von Hippel
Monitoring Extremely Young Clusters: Past, Present and Future
281(14)
William Herbst
Searches for Galactic Halo Remnants
295(8)
Nigel C. Hambly
Ben R. Oppenheimer
Gravitational Microlensing
303(12)
Bohdan Paczynski
Dynamics, Star Formation and Chemical Evolution in the Nearby Galaxies From Studies of Their Stellar Systems
315(16)
Mary Kontizas
Evangelos Kontizas
The Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System
331(12)
Hye-Sook Park
Dieter H. Hartmann
G. Grant Williams
The Importance of Small Telescopes to Cosmological Research
343(12)
John Huchra
Index 355

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