RADIO ASTRONOMY REFERENCES - MONOGRAPHS

1 Introductory / General

Bernard Lovell and J A Clegg, "Radio Astronomy", Chapman and Hall (London, 1952)

JL Pawsey and RN Bracewell, "Radio Astronomy", Clarendon (Oxford, 1955)

R Hanbury Brown and ACB Lovell, "The Exploration of Space by Radio", Chapman and Hall (London, 1957)

JH Piddington, "Radio Astronomy", Hutchinson (London, 1961)

F Graham Smith, "Radio Astronomy", Penguin Books [Pelican], (Middlesex, 1962)

Alex G Smith and Thomas D Carr, "Radio Exploration of the Planetary System", Van Nostrand [Momentum Book], (Princeton, 1964)

Roger C Jennison, "Introduction to Radio Astronomy", Newnes (London, 1966)

Alex G Smith, "Radio Exploration of the Sun", Van Nostrand (Princeton, 1967)

JS Hey, "The Radio Universe", Pergamon Press, (New York, 1975)

John Shields Potter, "Introduction to Radio Astronomy", Sams (Indianapolis, 1976)

CSIRO, "Radio Astronomy", CSIRO Research for Australia, CSIRO, (Canberra, 1985)

Bernard F Burke and Francis Graham-Smith, "An Introduction to Radio Astronomy", Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 1997)


2 Historical

JS Hey, "The Evolution of Radio Astronomy", Science History Publications, (New York, 1973)

John D Kraus, "Big Ear", Cygnus-Quasar Books, (Ohio, 1976)

Woodruff T Sullivan, "Classics in Radio Astronomy", Reidel (Dordrecht, 1982)

WT Sullivan, "The Early Years of Radio Astronomy", Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 1984)

Gerrit L Veschuur, "Invisible Universe Revealed: The Story of Radio Astronomy", Springer-Verlag, (New York, 1987)

Peter Robertson, "Beyond Southern Skies : Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope", Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 1992)

BK Malphrus, "The History of Radio Astronomy and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory", Kreiger Publishing Company (1996)


3 Reference

RN Bracewell (Editor), "Paris Symposium on Radio Astronomy", IAU Symposium #9, Stanford University Press, (Stanford, 1959)

John D Kraus, "Radio Astronomy", Cygnus-Quasar Books (Ohio, 1982)

ITU, "Handbook on Radio Astronomy", ITU Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU, (Geneva, 1995)


4 Solar

Mukul R Kundu, "Solar Radio Astronomy", Interscience[Wiley] (New York, 1965)

Alex G Smith, "Radio Exploration of the Sun", Van Nostrand (Princeton, 1967)

Albrecht Kruger, "Introduction to Solar Radio Astronomy and Radio Physics", Reidel, (Dordrecht, 1979)

MR Kundu and Tomas R Gergely (Editors), "Radio Physics of the Sun", Symposium at College Park, Maryland, Aug 7-10, 1979, Reidel, (Dordrecht, 1980)

AO Benz and P Zlobec (Editors), "Solar Radio Storms", Proceedings of the 4th CESRA Workshop on "Solar Noise Storms", Trieste (1982)

DJ McLean & NR Labrum (Editors), "Solar Radio Physics", Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1985) ISBN 0 521 25409 4


5 Meteor Radar

A C B Lovell, "Meteor Astronomy", Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1954)

D W R McKinley, "Meteor Science and Engineering", McGraw-Hill (New York, 1961)


6 Radiotelescope Design

WN Christiansen and JA Hogbom, "Radiotelescopes", Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge (1969)

Kristen Rohlps, "Tools of Radio Astronomy", Springer-Verlag , (Berlin, 1986)

Paul F Goldsmith (Editor), "Instrumentation and Techniques for Radio Astronomy", IEEE Press (New York, 1988)

M Felli and RE Spencer, "Very Long Baseline Interferometry: Techniques and Applications", Kluwer (Nato ASI Series), (Dordrecht, 1989)

RA Perley, FR Schwab and AH Bridle (Eds), "Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy", Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Conferences Series #6), (San Francisco, 1989)

K Rohlps and TL Wilson, "Tools of Radio Astronomy", Springer (1996)

GB Taylor, CL Carilli and RA Perley (Editors), "Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II", Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Conference Series #180) (San Franciso, 1999)

RN Bracewell, "The Fourier Transform and its Applications", McGraw-Hill (2000)

AR Thompson, JM Moran and GW Swenson, "Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy", Wiley (1986)/Krieger (Malabar, 1991)/Wiley-Interscience (2001)

John Kraus and Ronald Marhefka, "Antennas for All Applications", McGraw-Hill (2002)


7 Astrophysical

Stephen P Maran and A G W Cameron (Editors), "Physics of Nonthermal Radio Sources", Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, US Govt Printing Office (1964) (# 1964-0 740-350)

N Jackson and RJ Dasic (Editors), "High Sensitivity Radio Astronomy", Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997)


8 Special Topics

GL Verschuur and KL Kellerman (Editors), "Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy", Spinger-Verlag (Berlin, 1988)

WK Huchtmeir and O -G Richter, "A General Catalog of of HI Observations of Galaxies", Springer-Verlag (Berlin, 1989)

JE Baldwin and W Shouquan (Editors), "Radio Astronomical Seeing", International Academic Publishers (URSI/IAU Symposium, Beijing 1989) (1990)

JG Robertson and William J Tanqo (Editors), "Very High Angular Resolution Imaging", Kluwer (Proceedings of IAU Symposium 158, Sydney) (1994)

JA Zensus, PJ Diamond and PJ Napier (Editors), "Very Long Baseline Interferometry and the VLBA", Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Conference Series #82), (San Francisco, 1995)

Robert G Stone et al, "Radio Astronomy at Long Wavelengths", American Geophysical Union (Geophysical Monograph 119), (Washington DC, 2000)

A R Offringa, "Algorithms for Radio Interference Detection and Removal", Off Page (Amsterdam, 2012)


9 For Young People

Roger Piper, "The Story of Jodrell Bank", Hutchinson (London, 1965)


10 Amateur Radio Astronomy

Frank W Hyde, "Radio Astronomy for Amateurs", Lutterworth Press (London, 1962)

John Heywood, "Radio Astronomy Simplified", Arco Publications (London, 1963)

Dave Heiserman, "Radio Astronomy for the Amateur", Tab Books [#714], (Blue Ridge Summit, 1975)