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Essential Radio Astronomy

Essential Radio Astronomy

Essential Radio Astronomy

This book covers the following topics: What is Radio Astronomy, Early Radio Astronomy, The Radio Universe, Radiation Fundamentals: Brightness and Flux, Radiative Transfer, Blackbody Radiation, Larmor's Formula, CMB Radiation, Antenna Fundamentals, Reflector Antennas, Filled Apertures, Radio Telescopes, Radiometers, Interferometers, Thermal Emission, Nonthermal Emission, Pulsars and Spectral Lines.

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