Infrared Astronomy – Seeing the Heat: from William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory

Content: Finding the Heat    Introduction    William Herschel Discovers the Infrared    The Electromagnetic Spectrum    Thermal Radiation    Emission Lines    Telescopes, Backgrounds, and the Atmosphere    Feeling the Heat    Introduction: The Pastie Detector    The History of Astronomy is the History of Detection    Eyeballs to Chips    Into the Infrared    Longer Wavelengths    The Enemy: What Gets in the Way    Local Heat    Introduction: Observing SL9 at Calar Alto    Planets    Asteroids    Comets    Interplanetary Dust    Heat of the Stars    Introduction    The Main Sequence    Remnants of Planet Formation    Ageing Stars: Mass Loss    Stellar Death    Supernovae    Young Heat    Introduction    Star Formation: Background    Star Forming Regions    Young Stellar Objects    Planet Formation    Distant Heat    Introduction: The Mauna Kea Experience    Next-Door Neighbours    The Normal Universe    The AGN Connection    The IRAS Revolution    Ancient Heat    Introduction: Launch Day    Galaxy Evolution    The Cosmic Infrared Background    Searches for Distant ULIRGs    The Herschel Revolution    First Heat    Introduction    The Early History of the Universe    Making and Finding the CMB    Sound in the Darkness    The Planck Revolution    Future Heat    Introduction: SPICA, the Early Days    What Remains to be Done    JWST    Euclid    SPICA    Further in the Future    Endnotes