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Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the Noisy World Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference

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Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the Noisy World. Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference. What is radio astronomy?. The Radio Sky. The Optical Sky. Camelopardus. Auriga. Perseus. Taurus. What emits radio waves?. Recipe for Radio Waves Hot Gases - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the

Noisy World

Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference

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What is radio astronomy?

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The Radio Sky

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The Optical Sky

PerseusAuriga

Taurus

Camelopardus

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What emits radio waves?

Recipe for Radio Waves• Hot Gases• Spectral lines• Electrons and magnetic fields

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Big Point:

Any accelerating charge emits radio waves!

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Big Point # 2:

• Celestial Objects at Enormous Distances Appear “dim”

• 0.00000000000000000000000001 watt/m2/Hz !!

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The Rest of the Story:

What else emits radio waves?

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The Observatory in Green Bank

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The Rest of the Rest of the Story

Satellites!

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The GBT:

Why does it look so funny?

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The GBTOctober,

1999

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