Radio Astronomy : An Introduction
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
193642035X
ISBN-13
9781936420353
Publisher
Mercury Learning & Information
Imprint
Mercury Learning & Information
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 22nd, 2015
Print length
500 Pages
Weight
1,136 grams
Dimensions
18.40 x 23.80 x 3.00 cms
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Designed for a course in radio astronomy or for use as a reference for practicing engineers and astronomers, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic. Application boxes in each chapter cover topics like LOFAR, DSN, and VLBI. The book begins with the history of radio astronomy, then explains the fundamentals, polarization, designing radio telescopes, understanding radio arrays, interferometers, receiving systems, mapping techniques, image processing and propagation effects in relation to radio astronomy. A special chapter in the end presents the GMRT radio array as an example of the explained techniques.
Features:
- Includes context-connection boxes, including NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) the South Pole Telescope (SPT), the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), pulsar dispersion and distance, and plane waves in conducting and dielectric media
- Contains several appendices including radiation potential formalism, the physics of radio spectral lines, and a table of world radio observatories
- View the comprehensive companion disc with hundreds of color images and figures from the text
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