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The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

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The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

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The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The Astronomy and astrophysics review, 2016-12, Vol.24 (1), p.1-61, Article 13

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English

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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Radio astronomy has changed. For years it studied relatively rare sources, which emit mostly non-thermal radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. radio quasars and radio galaxies. Now, it is reaching such faint flux densities that it detects mainly star-forming galaxies and the more common radio-quiet active galactic nuclei. These...

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The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1845813012

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1845813012

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0935-4956

E-ISSN

1432-0754

DOI

10.1007/s00159-016-0098-6

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