Essential Radio Astronomy
by James J. Condon, Scott M. Ransom · first published 2016
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"Essential Radio Astronomy is the only textbook on the subject specifically designed for a one-semester introductory course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts from first principles in order to fill gaps in students' backgrounds, make teaching easier for professors who are not expert radio astronomers, and provide a useful reference to the essential equations used by practitioners. This unique textbook reflects the fact that students of multiwavelength astronomy typically can afford to spend only one semester studying the observational tech
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…Interferometry by Thompson and Intro to Radio Astro by Burke and Graham-Smith are strong recommendations. Those were the ones I used in my Radio Astro special topic in Uni. For some more background info, Essential Radio Astronomy open notes hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory [0] are a great resource as well. This was used as an extra resource in my Radio Astro course. The ERA notes were also later extended into…
on “What is interferometry?” ↗…of sight, pulsars can be used to probe the ISM via absorption by spectral lines of Hi or molecules. Such absorption spectra can be used to estimate pulsar distances" -- end of §6.2 of Condon & Ransom's Essential Radio Astronomy advanced undergraduate one-semester-course textbook (2016 ed.), web version at https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/web/Ch6.html ) I have a related comment in this thread if you're interested.
on “Evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background from a Galaxy-Sized Detector” ↗