Digitised Optical Sky Surveys

These are the proceedings of a meeting in honour of Massimo Capaccioli at the occasion of his 70th birthday. The conference aimed at summarizing the results from the main current and past digital sky survey projects and at discussing how these can be used to inspire ongoing projects and better plan the future ones.

Editors: Newberg, Heidi Jo, Carlin, Jeffrey L. (Eds.)
Introduces the field of tidal streams in galactic halos, including the discovery history, the cosmological origins of halo substructure, the techniques for discovering these streams and the use of tidal streams to constrain the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way
Provides a complete list of all substructures (in both density and velocity) discovered to date in the Milky Way halo
Written by leading researchers in the field
The first book focusing on the substructure of the Milky Way halo and similar substructure in other galaxies

This is volume 2 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research, covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy. This volume on “Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data” edited by Howard E. Bond presents accessible review chapters on Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Infrared Astronomy Fundamentals, Astronomical Polarimetry: Polarized Views of Stars and Planets, Sky Surveys,Techniques of Radio Astronomy,Radio and Optical Interferometry: Basic Observing Techniques and Data Analysis, Absolute Calibration of Spectrophotometric Standard Stars,Virtual Observatories, Data Mining, and Astroinformatics, Statistical Methods for Astronomy, Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics.