Opening a New Window on the Universe: High-Resolution, Long-Wavelength Radio Astronomy

Abstract

Although Jansky's (1933) discovery of radio astronomy was at decametric wavelengths, the urgent quest for ever higher angular resolution and the fact that ionospheric structure limits interferometric imaging to short (less than 5 km) baselines at long wavelengths (LW, taken to be 20 m or 15 to 150 MHz) has left the LW region among the most poorly explored in the entire spectrum.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 25, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408473

Entities

People

  • Namir E. Kassim
  • T. Joseph W. Lazio
  • William C. Erickson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Astronomy
  • High Resolution
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Radio Astronomy
  • Space Sciences
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Spectroscopy.