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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Main Authors: Thompson, A. Richard (Author), Moran, James M. (Author), Swenson Jr., George W. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:3rd ed. 2017.
Series:Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.