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Books by NRAO Staff Members

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Condon, James J. and Ransom, Scott M.  Essential Radio Astronomy.  Princeton University Press, 2016.

Frater, R, Goss, W. Miller, Wendt, Harry.  Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy - Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell.  Springer, 2017.

Gordon, Mark A. and Sorochenko, R.L.  Radio Recombination Lines:  Their Physics and Astronomical Applications.  Kluwer, 2002.

Gordon, Mark A.  Recollections of “Tucson Operations”: the Millimeter-Wave Observatory of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.  Springer, 2005.

Goss, W. Miller.  Making Waves: the Story of Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian Pioneer Radio Astronomer.  Springer, 2013.

Goss, W. Miller, Hooker, Claire, and Ekers, Ronald D.  Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy - Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos.  Springer, 2022. Open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07916-0.  Supplemental material: https://science.nrao.edu/about/publications/pawsey/.

Goss W. Miller and McGee, Richard X.  Under the Radar: the First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott.  Springer, 2009.

Kellermann, Kenneth I., Bouton, Ellen N., and Brandt, Sierra S. Open Skies: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy.  Springer, 2020. Open Access: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030323448.  Endnotes and errata: https://science.nrao.edu/about/publications/open-skies/.

Kellermann, Kenneth I. and Bouton, Ellen N.   Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe.  Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Kent, Brian R. 3D Scientific Visualization with Blender. IOP, Morgan & Claypool, 2015.

Kent, Brian R. Science and Computing with Raspberry Pi. IOP, Morgan & Claypool, 2018.

Lockman, F. Jay, Ghigo, Frank D., and Balser, Dana S. (eds.).  But It Was Fun: The First Forty Years of Radio Astronomy at Green Bank. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 2007.

Morgan, Matthew A.  Principles of RF and Microwave Design.  Artech House, 2020.

Morgan, Matthew A.  Reflectionless Filters.  Artech House, 2017.

Thompson, A. Richard, Moran, James M., and Swenson, George W.  Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy.  Wiley, 1986, 2001, 2017.

Vanden Bout, Paul, Dickman, Robert, and Plunkett, Adele. The ALMA Radio Telescope -  the Story of a Science Megaproject.  Cambridge University Press, 2023. Open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/alma-telescope/5C95C1D40C160F27C91BD0171DD5B0E8#fndtn-information.  Endnotes, supplemental material, and errata: https://science.nrao.edu/about/publications/alma/.

Verschuur, Gerrit and Kellermann, Kenneth I. (eds.).  Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy.  Springer-Verlag, 1974, 1988.