Thomas L. Wilson, Susanne Hüttemeister

Tools of Radio Astronomy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions. The problems are arranged following the content of the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by K. Rohlfs and T.L.Wilson (also available in the this series) on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Some of these problems have been formulated to provide an extension to the material presented in "Tools of Radio Astronomy".

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This book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions and covers topics of radio astronomy. The problems are arranged following the content of the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by Rohlfs and Wilson (also avai- lable in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) on a chap- ter-by-chapter basis. Some of these problems have been formulated to provide an extension to the material presented in "Tools of Radio Astronomy".

Produktdetails

• Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 2nd pr.
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 110mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9783540668022
• ISBN-10: 3540668020
• Artikelnr.: 09259036

Inhaltsangabe

Aus dem Inhalt: Radio Astronomical Fundamentals
- Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
- Wave Polarization
- Signal Processing and Receivers
- Antenna Fundamentals
- Filled Aperture Antennas
- Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis
- Observational Methods
- Emission Mechanisms of Continuous Radiation
- Some Examples of Thermal and Non-Thermal Radio Sources
- Spectral Line Fundamentals
- Line Radiation of Neutral Hydrogen
- Recombination Lines
- Molecules in Interstellar Space

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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.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "In your library you should have already another book, Tools of Radio Astronomy by Rohlfs and Wilson (A&A Library). The present text is its companion. Here we are given graduate level problems, chapter by chapter , with answers for that book. Now this sounds an excellent thing for students, does it not? The reviewer wishes he had had such help and guidance." The Irish Astronomical Journal, 2001.

Aus den Rezensionen zur 6.Auflage:

"... Studenten und Absolventen einschlägiger Fachrichtungen ist das Buch auch fur Quereinsteiger und Amateure geeignet, die ernsthaft in dieses Fachgebiet eindringen wollen." (in: Funkamateur, Heft 5, 2014)