num_pages: 408
description: New highlights include aperture synthesis, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and the further exploitation of molecular spectral lines. A new chapter is devoted to the fundamentals of a review of radio observations of our Milky Way galaxy, stars, pulsars, radio galaxies, quasars, and the cosmic microwave background. Reviews of Fourier Transform theory, celestial co-ordinate systems and a historical outline of the subject are provided in appendices.
language: English
title: An Introduction to Radio Astronomy
titlecomplete: An Introduction to Radio Astronomy
genres: Astronomy
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Cambridge University Press