Statistics
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21320011t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #200.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.188
Statistics
Scientific paper
Detailed statistics of papers and citations gathered with the full range of astronomical instrumentation in 1960-64 and 2001-05 reveal a characteristic lifetime for telescopes close to the length of an astronomical career, with a rise in paper numbers over 1-5 years, a period of peak productivity, and gradual, or occasionally sharp, decline. Revivals appear to be associated at least as much with significant new ideas as with new instruments, for instance the use of the Lick 120" for exoplanet searches, the AAT for the 2dF survey, and the focus of Parkes on pulsars. Other topics to be mentioned include an analogy between the Mt. Wilson 100" and HST, the contrasting roles of the 74" Radcliffe in South Africa and of five other 69-75" telescopes (two Canadian, and one each in US, Japan, and Australia), differences in the life cycles of radio, optical, and space-based facilities, and my favorite triple life-and-death instrument, the Great Melbourne Telescope. There will be pictures of as many familiar and unfamiliar telescopes as time permits. Astronomers in different countries and at different kinds of institutions do not operate on a level playing field, and inequality has changed very little in 40 years.
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