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Radio Astronomy - Coggle Diagram
Radio Astronomy
Telescope & Detector
Reflector
Feed horn
Low-noise amplifier
Filter
Downconverter
IF Amplifier
Spectrometer
Sources
Blackbody (thermal)
CMB
Continuum sources (non-thermal)
Bremsstralung (free-free)
Synchrotron
Spectral line sources
Neutral hydrogen (HI) spin-flip transition
Recombination lines
Molecular lines
Characteristics
Noise
Primary beam
Polarization
Detection
Always diffraction limited
Detected as a wave rather than a photon
Interferometry
Baseline
uv plane
Fourier transform
Clean