Essential Radio Astronomy
by James J. Condon, Scott M. Ransom · Princeton University Press
Graduate textbook built from the NRAO summer school course, covering radiation fundamentals, antennas, receivers, interferometry, synchrotron and free-free emission, pulsars, and spectral lines. Readers finish able to work quantitatively with radio telescope sensitivity and source physics.
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