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Chapter Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RADIO TELESCOPES AS ANTENNAS

3. SIGNAL DETECTION AND NOISE

4. SINGLE-APERTURE RADIO TELESCOPES

5. THE TWO-ELEMENT INTERFEROMETER

6. APERTURE SYNTHESIS

7. THE ABSORPTION, AMPLIFICATION, REFRACTION AND ATTENUATION OF RADIO WAVES

8. GALACTIC CONTINUUM RADIATION

9. THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM

10. GALACTIC DYNAMICS

11. STARS

12. PULSARS

13. RADIO GALAXIES AND QUASARS

14. COSMOLOGY AND THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

15. COSMOLOGY: DISCRETE RADIO SOURCES AND GRAVITATIONAL LENSES

16. THE PLACE OF RADIO IN ASTRONOMY