Tools of Radio Astronomy
by Kristen Rohlfs, Thomas L. Wilson · Wilson
Standard graduate reference on the instrumentation and physics behind radio observations: antenna theory, receivers, interferometry and aperture synthesis, plus continuum and spectral-line emission mechanisms. Readers learn how radio telescopes turn incoming signals into calibrated astrophysical measurements.
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