Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Thompson, A. Richard. author (author), Moran, James M. author, Swenson Jr., George W. author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2017
Cham : 2017.
Edición:3rd ed. 2017.
Colección:Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425207506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction and Historical Review
  • Introductory Theory of Interferometry and Synthesis Imaging
  • Analysis of the Interferometer Response
  • Geometric Relationships and Polarimetry
  • Antennas and Arrays
  • Response of the Receiving System
  • Design of the Analog Receiving System
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry
  • Calibration and Fourier Transformation of Visibility Data
  • Deconvolution, Adaptive Calibration and Applications
  • Interferometer Techniques for Astrometry and Geodesy
  • Propagation Effects
  • Van Cittert-Zernike Theorem, Spatial Coherence and Scattering
  • Radio Interference
  • Related Techniques
  • Principal Symbols
  • Index.