The imaging capabilities of the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 531-541

  White, Stephen M ^a   Lee, Jeongwoo ^b   Aschwanden, Markus J ^c   Bastian, Timothy S ^d  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radio telescopes; Solar radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIO TELESCOPES; SUN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FREQUENCY AGILE SOLAR RADIOTELESCOPE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE; SOLAR FLARES;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037517052     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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