Astronomie spatiale infrarouge, aujourd'hui et demain Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow: 3-28 August 1998: Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique, cartea 70

Some Quantitative Aspects of Galactic and Extragalactic Infrared Astronomy.- Overview of the ISO Mission.- Data Analysis with ISOCAM.- ISO Observations of Solar-System Objects.- Stars and Galactic Structure.- Star Formation.- Dust in the Interstellar Medium.- Normal Galaxies in the Infrared.- Active Galaxies.- Cosmology with ISO.

This book brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school "Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow". It gives a wide overview of infrared astronomy, a wavelength domain crucial for studies of the solar system, stars at the beginning and end of their lives, interstellar matter and galaxies at all distances. Recent developments in observational techniques have been tremendous. The first contributions give an introduction to the basic physical processes and methods of detection and data processing. They are followed by a series of lectures dealing with the wide variety of astronomical objects that can be seen in the infrared.

Infrared Astronomy is a very active field and affects large parts of astronomical and cosmological research. This unique collection of high-quality lectures should attract a wide audience. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras