
Tools of Radio Astronomy
Springer (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 14. March 2006
Book
Hardback
XVI, 462 pages
978-3-540-40387-6 (ISBN)
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Description
1. Most authoritative and established of graduate-level textbooks and references in the field.
2. Provides not only specialists with the details they need but also non-specialists with access to the jargon and basics of this vital field.
3. New edition offers completely rewritten chaptes on interferometry and aperture synthsis, as well as thoroughly revised chapters on receiver technology and interstellar molecules.
4. From the reviews of previous editions:"Nowadays Rohlfs and Wilson`s Tools of Radio Astronomy is the inevitable reference book. This is the one book you should buy if you want to become a radio astronomer. "
The Observatory, 2001 "An excellent survey of the tools a radio astronomer needs to pursue the trade... The neatly encapsulated derivations of many classical relations will make the book useful to lecturer and student and practicing astronomer alike." American Scientist
"People use this book so much because it describes what one needs in order to actually do radio astronomy... This book is an excellent graduate level text - the best available by far. It is also the best reference book for practicing astronomers who want to do radio astronomy properly, to interpret jargon or to understand some of the details of the literature." Physics Today
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Series
Edition
4th rev. and enlarged ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Graduate students, undergraduate students, libraries,
universities or college teachers in astronomy
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
85
85 s/w Abbildungen
133 black & white illustrations, 13 black & white halftones, 120 black & white line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
882 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-40387-6 (9783540403876)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-05394-2
Schweitzer Classification
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T. L. Wilson | Kristen Rohlfs | Susanne Hüttemeister
Tools of Radio Astronomy
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12/2008
5th Edition
Springer
€85.55
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Previous edition

Kristen Rohlfs | T. L. Wilson
Tools of Radio Astronomy
Book
10/1999
3rd Edition
Springer
€74.85
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Content
1. Radio Astronomical Fundamentals.- 2. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Fundamentals.- 3. Wave Polarization.- 4. Signal Processing and Receivers.- 5. Fundamentals of Antenna Theory.- 6. Filled Aperture Antennas.- 7. Observational Methods.- 8. Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis.- 9. Emission Mechanisms of Continuous Radiation.- 10. Some Examples of Thermal and Nonthermal Radio Sources.- 11. Spectral Line Fundamentals.- 12. Line Radiation of Neutral Hydrogen.- 13. Recombination Lines.- 14. Molecules in Interstellar Space.- A. Some Useful Vector Relations.- B. The Fourier Transform.- C. The Hankel Transform.- D. A List of Calibration Radio Sources.- References.