Highlights of IAU Symposium No. 167

Abstract

The talks at this IAU Symposium have illustrated the spectacular development which has taken place in the last decade in the field of array detectors for astronomy. Just a few years ago it was possible to speak of two-D detectors for the UV-red wavelength range only. At this meeting we have witnessed presentations on array characteristics from the extreme UV (Bonanno 1995), through the blue-visual range (D'Odorico 1995, Jorden and Oates 1995, Iwert 1995 and Luppino et al. 1995); the infrared 1 to 5 μm window (McLean 1995, Finger et al. 1995, Gilmore et al. 1995, Fazio 1995, Glass et al. 1995 and Ueno et al. 1995); the 10–20 μm window (Fazio 1995, Gezari 1995) and finally to an array of bolometers to operate at submillimeter wavelengths (Moseley 1995). Field imaging and spectroscopy are now possible across this entire energy spectrum and some of the first exciting astronomical results obtained with these devices have been presented here.