The Westerbork Observatory, Continuing Adventure in Radio Astronomy
A small country builds a world-class telescope in its backyard and lives happily ever after (or at least for a quarter century). That in a nutshell is the story told in this collection of essays. The country of course is the Netherlands, and the telescope is the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Tele scop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Oort’s Dream (1961)
- Historical Notes: Four Decades of Dutch Radio Astronomy, Twenty-Five Years Westerbork Telescope
- The Synthesis Radio Telescope; Principles of Operation, Development of Data Processing
- A Quarter Century of Listening Pleasure — 25 Years’ Research with the WSRT
- The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, a Second Lease on Life
- The Westerbork Telescope and Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- Dark Matter and Neutral Hydrogen in Spiral Galaxies
- Powerful Radio Sources: Westerbork and Beyond
- The Square Kilometer Array Interferometer
- Prospects for Pulsar Research
- Gas in the Early Universe
- New Challenges for Cosmology
- Index of Names