Green Bank telescope: An overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 656-665

  Lockman, Felix J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Radio telescope; Receivers

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

GREEN BANK TELESCOPE (GBT); RADIO TELESCOPE; RECEIVERS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 58749094098     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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