Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy — An Undergraduate Textbook in Two Volumes

Volume I: Observational Methods

Errata for Volume I

Table-Top Interferometry Labs using the Haystack Observatory Very Small Radio Telescope (VSRT):

IntroductiontotheVSRT.pdf: Explanation of the hardware, how to use the VSRT and the analysis software (VSRTI_Plotter).

HowtheVSRTWorks.pdf: Mathematical derivation proving that the VSRT Interferometer simulates (somewhat) a cross-correlation by measuring the amplitudes of the complex visibilities

VSRTILabs.pdf: Instructions for 6 labs using the VSRT Interferometer on the basics of aperture synthesis — how an array of antennas can produce images of radio sources

Computer Programs and Files Needed for Chapter 5 Exercises and VSRT Labs

Acknowledgments:  The VSRT was developed by Alan Rogers, Preethi Pratap, and Vincent Fish at the Haystack Observatory of MIT, with contributions made by Martina Arndt (of Bridgewater State University), Stephen Minnigh and Michael Doherty
The Java packages (SRT_Plotter, VSRTI_Plotter, and TIFT) were developed by Karel Durkota, Adam Pere, and Gabriel Holodak.
Vincent Fish, Alan Rogers, and Francis Wilkin contributed to the development of these labs.
The development of the VSRTs was funded by the National Science Foundation CCLI grant DUE-0817136 and the development of the VSRTI_Plotter Java package by the NSF IIS CPATH award 0722203.

Volume II: Astrophysics

Errata for Volume II