The Story of Radio Astronomy
This talk is about how it all started, with various discoveries over the years. It goes on to cover various things that are currently of interest. Areas covered include:
Pre-war history | Jansky and other early pioneers |
Jodrell Bank and the Cambridge group | Lovell, Hey and Ryle's developments |
Interferometry | Techniques used to improve resolving power |
CMB radiation | Its discovery. What is it? Where we are now |
Pulsars and Quasars | Their detection; what they are; blazars; active galactic nuclei |
Radio Galaxies | What sort of galaxy are they? Structure of radio emission |
21 cm hydrogen line | What we learn from the study of neutral hydrogen |