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  title info:
    title: Tools of Radio Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Thomas L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rohlfs, Kristen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hüttemeister, Susanne.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 6th ed. 2013.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 609 p. 155 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This 6th edition of “Tools of Radio Astronomy”, the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state of this important branch of astronomy. This includes the use of satellites, low radio frequencies, the millimeter/sub-mm universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background and the increased importance of mm/sub-mm dust emission. Several derivations and presentations of technical aspects of radio astronomy and receivers, such as receiver noise, the Hertz dipole and beam forming have been updated, expanded, re-worked or complemented by alternative derivations. These reflect advances in technology. The wider bandwidths of the Jansky-VLA and long wave arrays such as LOFAR and mm/sub-mm arrays such as ALMA required an expansion of the discussion of interferometers and aperture synthesis. Developments in data reduction algorithms have been included. As a result of the large amount of data collected in the past 20 years, the discussion of solar system radio astronomy, dust emission, and radio supernovae has been revisited. The chapters on spectral line emission have been updated to cover measurements of the neutral hydrogen radiation from the early universe as well as measurements with new facilities. Similarly the discussion of molecules in interstellar space has been expanded to include the molecular and dust emission from protostars and very cold regions. Several worked examples have been added in the areas of fundamental physics, such as pulsars. Both students and practicing astronomers will appreciate this new up-to-date edition of Tools of Radio Astronomy.
  table of contents: Radio Astronomical Fundamentals -- ElectromagneticWave Propagation Fundamentals -- Wave Polarization -- Signal Processing and Receivers: Theory -- Practical Receiver Systems -- Fundamentals of Antenna Theory -- Practical Aspects of Filled Aperture Antennas -- Single Dish Observational Methods -- Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis -- Emission Mechanisms of Continuous Radiation -- Some Examples of Thermal and Nonthermal Radio Sources -- Spectral Line Fundamentals -- Line Radiation from Atoms -- Radio Recombination Lines -- Overview of Molecular Basics -- Molecules in Interstellar Space -- Some Useful Vector Relations & Fourier Transforms -- The Van Vleck Clipping Correction: One Bit Quantization -- Conventional Derivation of Square Law Detector Response & Receiver Noise -- The Reciprocity Theorem -- Filled Aperture Antennas -- The Hankel Transform -- Lists of Calibration Radio Sources -- The Mutual Coherence Function and van Cittert-Zernike Theorem -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, Susanne Hüttemeister.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves
  subject:
    topic: Optical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
  identifier: 9783642399503
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39950-3
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    record creation date: 131205
    record change date: 20151204161249.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-39950-3