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  title info:
    title: Tools of Radio Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Rohlfs, K.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Wilson, T. L.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 462 pages)
  abstract: This substantially rewritten and expanded fourth edition outlines the most up-to-date methods and tools of radio astronomy. Tools of Radio Astronomy gives a unified treatment of the entire field of radio astronomy, from centimeter to sub-millimeter wavelengths and using single telescopes as well as interferometers. The basic physical principles are described and a complete outline of the instrumentation, observational techniques, and methods of measurement and analysis are given. The goal of this standard reference and text is to prepare readers to carry out observations and relate the data to physical processes in interstellar space. In this fourth edition, the chapter on interferometry and aperture synthesis has been thoroughly revised in the light of most recent developments, as has been the chapter on molecules in interstellar space, and material on receiver technology. From reviews of previous editions: "People use this book so much because it describes what one needs in order actually to do radio astronomy ... and it will remain relevant for a long time ... This book is an excellent graduate level text - the best available by far. It is also the best reference book for the practising astronomer who wants to do radio astronomy properly, to interpret the jargon or to understand some of the details of current literature." Physics Today "This is the one book you should buy if you want to become a radio astronomer. (...) I have used the first and second editions as a postgraduate textbook for many years, and will now recommend the third edition to my students." The Observatory.
  table of contents: Radio Astronomical Fundamentals -- Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Fundamentals -- Wave Polarization -- Signal Processing and Receivers -- Fundamentals of Antenna Theory -- Filled Aperture Antennas -- Observational Methods -- Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis -- Emission Mechanisms of Continuous Radiation -- Some Examples of Thermal and Nonthermal Radio Sources -- Spectral Line Fundamentals -- Line Radiation of Neutral Hydrogen -- Recombination Lines -- Molecules in Interstellar Space.
  note: by K. Rohlfs, T.L. Wilson.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 523.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy and astrophysics library
  identifier: 9783662053942 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3662053942 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783662053966
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    record creation date: 130202
    record change date: 20260422225417.3
    record identifier: in00003562599
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng