Tools of Radio Astronomy (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) - Hardcover

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This textbook gives an outline of the tools and methods of radio astronomy needed by students and astronomers who want to understand how to do observations and how to relate the data to physical processes in interstellar space. It gives a unified treatment of the entire field of radio astronomy from centimeter to sub-millimeter wavelengths, using single telescopes as well as interferometers. The book, now in the third edition, may be judged by the following excerpts from a book review of the second edition by C. Heiles (1998) in Physics Today 51, 62-64:
"People use this book so much because it describes what one needs in order actually to do radio astronomy ... and it will remain relevant for a long time...
This book is an excellent graduate level text - the best available by far. It is also the best reference book for the practising astronomer who wants to do radio astronomy properly, to interpret the jargon or to understand some of the details of current literature."
The present edition has been brought up to date and includes additional sections on new receiver techniques (hot-electron bolometers and chirp transform spectrometers) and a section on pulsar astronomy.