Serendipitous discoveries in radio astronomy : proceedings of a workshop held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, West Virginia on May 4, 5, 6, 1983
Serendipitous discoveries in radio astronomy : proceedings of a workshop held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, West Virginia on May 4, 5, 6, 1983
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Good. viii, 321, [1] pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. Cover torn at top of spine. This was Workshop No. 7. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory was operated by Associated Universities, Inc. under contract with the National Science Foundation. Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The first detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was in 1932, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories observed radiation coming from the Milky Way. Subsequent observations have identified a number of different sources of radio emission. These include stars and galaxies, as well as entirely new classes of objects, such as radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, and masers. Radio astronomy is conducted using large radio antennas referred to as radio telescopes, that are used singularly or with linked telescopes utilizing the techniques of radio interferometry and aperture synthesis. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the United States National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. for the purpose of radio astronomy. NRAO designs, builds, and operates its own high sensitivity radio telescopes for use by scientists around the world. The Karl G. Jansky Lectureship is a prestigious Lecture awarded by the Board of Trustees of the NRAO. The Lectureship is awarded "to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of radio astronomy." Recipients have included Fred Hoyle, Charles Townes, Edward M. Purcell, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Philip Morrison, Vera Rubin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Frank J. Low and Mark Reid.