May 2000
Intermediate to advanced
323 pages
13h 34m
English
In section 1.3 we defined the aims of radioastronomy and alluded in general terms to some of the contributions made by this young branch of science. In this section we shall outline some of the key discoveries made and provide the connecting links between observations taken by radiotelescopes and the derivation of the physical processes taking place in and around celestial sources. Lastly, the theoretical framework of imaging is considered before applications are outlined.
Nowadays we take it for granted that celestial sources emanate radiation at radio frequencies and that some of them are compact. As late as 1950 some astronomers held the view that radio observations would ...
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