| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 609 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN |
9783642399503 (electronic bk.) |
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3642399509 (electronic bk.) |
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9783642399497 |
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3642399495 |
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9783642399497 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
10.1007/978-3-642-39950-3 doi |
| Note |
Rohlfs' name appears first on earlier edition. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Series |
Astronomy and astrophysics library.
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| Subject |
Radio astronomy.
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Radio astronomy -- Instruments.
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| Other Author |
Rohlfs, K. (Kristen), 1930- author.
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Hüttemeister, S. (Susanne), 1963- author.
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Rohlfs, K. (Kristen), 1930-
Tools of radio astronomy.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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