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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy

Publication year: 2017

ISBN: 978-3-319-44431-4

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.The third edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides extensive updates to the second edition, including results and technical advances from the past decade; discussion of arrays that now span the full range of the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum observable from the ground, 10 MHz to 1 THz; an analysis of factors that affect array speed; and an expanded discussion of digital signal-processing techniques and of scintillation phenomena and the effects of atmospheric water vapor on image distortion, among many other topics.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Digital signal processing, Interferometry textbook, Radio astronomy textbook, Radio frequency interference, Radio interferometry, Radio interferometry textbook, Radio propagation effects, Synthesis array, Synthesis mapping, Thompson interferometry, Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Applied and Technical Physics