Research Catalog

Title

Synthesis imaging in radio astronomy II : a collection of lectures from the Sixth NRAO/NMIMT Synthesis Imaging Summer School held at Socorro, New Mexico, USA, 17-23 June, 1998 / edited by G.B. Taylor, C.L. Carilli, and R.A. Perley.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Taylor, G. B. (Greg B.)
• Carilli, C. L.
• Perley, Richard A.
• NRAO/NMIMT Synthesis Imaging Summer School (6th : 1998 : Socorro, N.M.)

Description

xxxv, 704 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 180

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 180.

Alternative Title

• Synthesis imaging in radio astronomy two
• Synthesis imaging in radio astronomy 2

Subject

• Radio astronomy > Congresses
• Imaging systems in astronomy > Congresses
• Very large array telescopes > Congresses
• Radio interferometers > Congresses
• Astronomy > Data processing > Congresses
• 39.13 radio astronomy
• Radio interferometers
• Astronomy > Data processing
• Imaging systems in astronomy
• Radio astronomy
• Very large array telescopes
• Radioastronomie
• RADIO ASTRONOMY
• IMAGING TECHNIQUES
• IMAGE PROCESSING
• ASTRONOMY
• DATA PROCESSING
• INTERFEROMETERS
• CONFERENCES

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• "The Summer School on Synthesis Imaging held in Socorro, New Mexico from June 17 to June 23, 1998 was the sixth in a series held approximately every three years. ... This Volume contains the edited texts of lectures from the series, and succeeds the previous collection from the Third Synthesis Imaging Summer School published in 1989."--P. xxxi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Coherence in Radio Astronomy / B.G. Clark -- 2. Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry / A. Richard Thompson -- 3. The Primary Antenna Elements / P.J. Napier -- 4. Cross Correlators / J.D. Romney -- 5. Calibration and Editing / Ed B. Fomalont; Richard A. Perley -- 6. Polarization in Interferometry / W.D. Cotton -- 7. Imaging / Daniel S. Briggs; Frederic R. Schwab; Richard A. Sramek -- 8. Deconvolution / Tim Cornwell; Robert Braun; Daniel S. Briggs -- 9. Sensitivity / J.M. Wrobel; R.C. Walker -- 10. Self-Calibration / Tim Cornwell; Ed B. Fomalont -- 11. Spectral-Line Observing I: Introduction / David J. Westpfahl -- 12. Spectral Line Observing II: Calibration and Analysis / M.P. Rupen -- 13. High Dynamic Range Imaging / Richard A. Perley -- 14. Image Analysis / Ed B. Fomalont -- 15. Error Recognition / R.D. Ekers -- 16. Non-Imaging Data Analysis / Timothy J. Pearson -- 17. Special Problems in Imaging / W.D. Cotton -- 18. Bandwidth and Time-Average Smearing / A.H. Bridle; F.R. Schwab -- 19. Imaging with Non-Coplanar Arrays / Richard A. Perley -- 20. Mosaicing with Interferometric Arrays / M.A. Holdaway -- 21. Multi-Frequency Synthesis / R.J. Sault; J.E. Conway -- 22. Very Long Baseline Interferometry / R.C. Walker -- 23. Astrometry and Geodesy / Ed B. Fomalont -- 24. Spectral Line VLBI / Mark J. Reid -- 25. VLBI polarimetry / A.J. Kemball -- 26. Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry / J.S. Ulvestad -- 27. Interferometric Array Design / M.A. Holdaway; Tamara T. Helfer -- 28. Millimeter Interferometry / C.L. Carilli; J.E. Carlstrom; M.A. Holdaway -- 29. Long Wavelength Interferometry / W.C. Erickson -- 30. Pulsar Observing at the VLA / T.H. Hankins -- 31. Solar System Objects / B.J. Butler; T.S. Bastian -- 32. The Hamaker-Bregman-Sault Measurement Equation / R.J. Sault; T.J. Cornwell -- 33. Noise and Interferometry / V. Radhakrishnan.

ISBN

• 1583810056
• 9781583810057

LCCN

99064083

OCLC

• ocm44014257
• 44014257
• SCSB-825633

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library