Open Skies : : The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy.

• Superior document: Historical and Cultural Astronomy Series
• Author: Kellermann, Kenneth I.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bouton, Ellen N.; Brandt, Sierra S.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical and Cultural Astronomy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1: A New Window on the Universe
• 1.1 Star Noise at the Telephone Company1
• 1.2 Early Follow-Up to Jansky's Discovery
• 1.3 Grote Reber and Cosmic Static53
• 1.4 Impact of Karl Jansky and Grote Reber
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 2: The Postwar Explosion in Radio Astronomy: The US Falls Behind
• 2.1 Postwar Radio Astronomy
• 2.2 Radio Waves from the Sun3
• 2.3 Radio Stars and Radio Galaxies
• 2.4 The 21 cm Hydrogen Line: The Beginning of Radio Spectroscopy
• 2.5 Early US University Radio Astronomy Programs
• 2.6 US Government and Military Radio Astronomy Programs
• 2.7 Private Initiatives
• 2.8 Why Did the US Fall Behind the UK and Australia? Or Did It?
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 3: A New Era in Radio Astronomy
• 3.1 The Business of Science
• 3.2 First Steps Toward a National Radio Astronomy Facility20
• 3.3 Creating the National Observatory
• 3.4 Choosing the Site
• 3.5 Confrontation and Decision
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 4: Growing Pains
• 4.1 Finding a Director
• 4.2 Getting Started
• 4.3 The 85 Foot Tatel Radio Telescope (aka 85-1)
• 4.4 The 140 Foot Saga30
• 4.5 The 300 Foot Transit Radio Telescope
• 4.6 Jumping Ship
• 4.7 Exodus from Green Bank
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 5: Is Anyone Out There?
• 5.1 Project Ozma
• 5.2 Cocconi and Morrison Paper
• 5.3 Reactions to Searching for Extraterrestrials
• 5.4 Development of the SETI Community
• 5.5 SETI After Project Ozma
• 5.6 SETI in the USSR
• 5.7 Continuing SETI Programs
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 6: The Bar Is Open
• 6.1 NRAO Reaches Maturity
• 6.2 First Scientific Studies
• 6.3 The Central Development Laboratory
• 6.4 Open Skies.
• 6.5 Community Interactions
• 6.6 Growing Competition
• 6.7 Grote Reber Challenges NRAO32
• 6.8 Changing Leadership
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 7: The Very Large Array
• 7.1 Background
• 7.2 Origins of the Very Large Array and the Owens Valley Array
• 7.3 The Green Bank Interferometer (GBI)
• 7.4 The NRAO-OVRO Wars
• 7.5 Choosing the VLA Site
• 7.6 Building the VLA
• 7.7 Transition to Operations
• 7.8 The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA)
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 8: VLBI and the Very Long Baseline Array
• 8.1 Independent-Oscillator-Tape-Recording Interferometry1
• 8.2 Penetrating the Iron Curtain
• 8.3 Faster than Light
• 8.4 Advanced VLBI Systems
• 8.5 VLBI Networks
• 8.6 Planning the VLBA
• 8.7 Funding the VLBA
• 8.8 Building the VLBA
• 8.9 Orbiting VLBI (OVLBI)
• 8.10 Reflections
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 9: The Largest Feasible Steerable Telescope
• 9.1 Early Discussions
• 9.2 International Challenges
• 9.3 The Sugar Grove Fiasco
• 9.4 The Largest Feasible Steerable Telescope Project
• 9.5 Challenges from California and Cambridge
• 9.6 A National Disaster Leads to a New Radio Telescope
• 9.7 Building the Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 10: Exploring the Millimeter Sky
• 10.1 First Attempts
• 10.2 The NRAO 36 Foot Millimeter Wave Telescope
• 10.3 Replacing the 36 Foot Telescope
• 10.4 US Industrial and University Millimeter Wave Astronomy Programs
• 10.5 International Challenges
• 10.6 The NRAO Millimeter Array (MMA)
• 10.7 The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA)
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Chapter 11: NRAO and Radio Astronomy in the Twenty-First Century
• 11.1 New Discoveries and New Problems.
• 11.2 Radio Astronomy and Optical Astronomy
• 11.3 NRAO and the US Radio Astronomy Community
• 11.4 Conflict and Collaboration
• 11.5 The National Radio Quiet Zone and Radio Frequency Spectrum Management6
• 11.6 The Transition to "Big Science"
• 11.7 The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
• 11.8 The Next Generation VLA (ngVLA)
• 11.9 Divestment
• 11.10 Lessons Learned
• Bibliography
• References
• Further Reading
• Correction to: Open Skies: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy
• Correction to: K. I. Kellermann et al., Open Skies, Historical &amp
• Cultural Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32345-5
• Appendix A
• Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Text
• Citation Abbreviations for NRAO/AUI Archives Materials
• Citation Abbreviations for Other Archival Materials
• Appendix B
• NRAO Timeline
• Index.