This comprehensive and unique reference work on astrotomography is based on expanded and suitably edited contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Astrotomography. The focus is on studying indirect imaging and subsequent reconstruction techniques with applications in all areas of observational astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Detailed subject and object indexes, together with a list of useful resources on the Internet, will help the reader to use this book in a most efficient way.

This comprehensive and unique reference work on astro-tomography is based on expanded and suitably edited contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Astro-tomography. The focus is on studying indirect imaging and subsequent reconstruction techniques with applications in all areas of observational astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Detailed subject and object indexes, together with a list of useful resources on the Internet, will help the reader to use this book in a most efficient way.

This is the only reference book on this topic Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Zusammenfassung

"Indirect imaging has become the norm in studies of cataclysmic binaries and related objects - but after more than 15 years this is the first book to document the techniques in a systematic way. It is therefore extremely welcome and is indispensable reading for all users of these techniques. [...] This is a book to keep close to your desk if you are working in this area." (The Observatory, 122/1171, 2002)

Inhalt
Doppler Tomography.- Mapping the Peculiar Binary GP Com.- H?-Emission Doppler Tomography of Long-Period Cataclysmic Variable Stars.- Doppler Tomography of the Dwarf Nova IY UMa During Quiescence.- Spiral Waves in Accretion Discs Observations.- Spiral Waves in Accretion Discs Theory.- Spiral Shocks in an Inviscid Simulation of Accretion Flow in a Close Binary System.- Imaging the Secondary Stars in Cataclysmic Variables.- Statistics of Isolated Emission Sources in Cataclysmic Variables.- Tomography of Polars.- Tomography of Magnetic Accretion Flows.- The Geometrical Configuration of Polars and Possible Reconstruction Artefacts of Eclipse Mapping Methods.- Spot Mapping in Cool Stars.- Imaging the Magnetic Topologies of Cool Active Stars.- Differential Rotation of Close Binary Stars: Application to HR 1099.- Magnetic Doppler Imaging of Chemically Peculiar Stars.- Stokes Imaging of the Accretion Region in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.- Doppler Images of the M Dwarf RE 1816 +541.- The Method of Spectra Disentangling and Its Links to Doppler Tomography.- Fourier Disentangling of Composite Spectra.- Doppler Tomography of Eclipsing and Non-eclipsing Algols.- Tomography of the Atmosphere of Long-Period Variable Stars.- Eclipse Mapping of Accretion Discs.- Physical Parameter Eclipse Mapping.- Applications of Indirect Imaging Techniques in X-ray Binaries.- Doppler Tomography of XTE J2123-058 and Other Neutron Star LMXBs.- Echo Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei.- Echoes in X-ray Binaries: Mapping the Accretion Flow.