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A half century of infrared astronomy — A personal recollection of the footprints in Japan

Since the new era of infrared astronomy was opened by the Two Micron Sky Survey by Neugebauer et al. in the early 1960s, about a half century has passed. During this time, observations have expanded rapidly and widely, to almost every field of astronomy, to reveal new perspectives on the universe. A...

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Autor principal: OKUDA, Haruyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6856001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31708495
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.95.035
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description Since the new era of infrared astronomy was opened by the Two Micron Sky Survey by Neugebauer et al. in the early 1960s, about a half century has passed. During this time, observations have expanded rapidly and widely, to almost every field of astronomy, to reveal new perspectives on the universe. As a result, infrared astronomy has become one of the major branches of astronomy, along with optical, radio, X-ray as well as high-energy particle astronomy. In Japan, we started our infrared astronomical activities at a rather early time, under relatively poor technical and environmental conditions, and using somewhat unconventional methods to overcome these difficulties. Here, a brief survey is presented of developments concerning infrared astronomy during the past half century, while mainly recollecting our footprints in the stream of world activities.
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spelling pubmed-68560012019-11-20 A half century of infrared astronomy — A personal recollection of the footprints in Japan OKUDA, Haruyuki Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci Review Since the new era of infrared astronomy was opened by the Two Micron Sky Survey by Neugebauer et al. in the early 1960s, about a half century has passed. During this time, observations have expanded rapidly and widely, to almost every field of astronomy, to reveal new perspectives on the universe. As a result, infrared astronomy has become one of the major branches of astronomy, along with optical, radio, X-ray as well as high-energy particle astronomy. In Japan, we started our infrared astronomical activities at a rather early time, under relatively poor technical and environmental conditions, and using somewhat unconventional methods to overcome these difficulties. Here, a brief survey is presented of developments concerning infrared astronomy during the past half century, while mainly recollecting our footprints in the stream of world activities. The Japan Academy 2019-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6856001/ /pubmed/31708495 http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.95.035 Text en © 2019 The Japan Academy This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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