Radio Astronomy

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Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1—Radio Astronomy and the Invisible Universe
Lecture 2—Thermal Radio Emission: The Planets
Lecture 3—The Birth of Radio Astronomy
Lecture 4—The Discovery of Interstellar Hydrogen
Lecture 5—Radio Telescopes and How They Work
Lecture 6—Mapping the Hydrogen Sky
Lecture 7—Tour of the Green Bank Observatory
Lecture 8—Tour of the Green Bank Telescope
Lecture 9—Hydrogen and the Structure of Galaxies
Lecture 10—Pulsars: Clocks in Space
Lecture 11—Pulsars and Gravity
Lecture 12—Pulsars and the 300-Foot Telescope
Lecture 13—The Big Bang: The Oldest Radio Waves
Lecture 14—H II Regions and the Birth of Stars
Lecture 15—Supernovas and the Death of Stars
Lecture 16—Radio Stars and Early Interferometers
Lecture 17—Radio Source Counts
Lecture 18—Active Galactic Nuclei and the VLA
Lecture 19—A Telescope as Big as the Earth
Lecture 20—Galaxies and Their Gas
Lecture 21—Interstellar Molecular Clouds
Lecture 22—Star Formation and ALMA
Lecture 23—Interstellar Chemistry and Life
Lecture 24—The Future of Radio Astronomy
Bibliography
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