Shubhendu Joardar, J. R. Claycomb

Radio Astronomy

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9781936420353
• ISBN-10: 193642035X
• Artikelnr.: 34397612

Autorenporträt

Joardar Shubhendu: Shubhendu Joardar is the senior engineer and scientific officer at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is a fellow of the Institute of the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and his major field of work has been in microwaves, antennas, astronomical radio spectrographs, RFI instrumentations, and data analysis for radio astronomy. Claycomb J. R.: J. R. Claycomb is Associate Professor of Physics at Houston Baptist University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foundations of Radio Astronomy.
2. Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy.
3. Polarization Analysis.
4. Designing Single Dishes and Phased Arrays.
5. Interferometry and Radio Arrays.
6. Receiving Systems.
7. Interferometer Aperture Synthesis and Radio Mapping.
8. Interferometer Data Calibration and Image Processing.
9. Propagation Effects in Radio Astronomy.
10. The GMRT Radio Array.

A. Coordinate Systems Used in Radio Astronomy.
B. Antenna Terminology for Radio Telescopes.
C. Radiation Potential Formulation.
D. Radio Spectral Lines.
E. Radio Telescopes.
Bibliography.
Index.