===== Radio astronomy ===== Rohlfs, //Tools of radio astronomy// [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004tra..book.....R| 4th rev. and enl. ed., Springer, 2004]] Lilley, A.E. & Palmer, P., //Tables of Radio-Frequency Recombination Lines// [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApJS...16..143L| ApJS 16, 143, 1968]] ===== Data calibration ===== === General flux calibration === Baars et al., //The absolute spectrum of CAS A - an accurate flux density scale and a set of secondary calibrators//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977A%26A....61...99B| A&A 61, 99, 1977]] Ott et al., //An updated list of radio flux density calibrators//,[[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994A%26A...284..331O|A&A 284, 331, 1994]] Perley & Butler, //An accurate flux density scale from 1 to 50 GHz//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJS..204...19P|ApJS 204, 19, 2013]] Kraus, //Calibration of the Effelsberg 100m telescope//, tech. memo, 2009 Lilley & Palmer, //Tables of Radio-Frequency Recombination Lines//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApJS...16..143L| ApJS 16, 143, 1968]] === Spectroscopic flux and bandpass calibration === Winkel et al., //Unbiased flux calibration methods for spectral-line radio observations//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1203.0741W| A&A 540, A140, 2012]] Heiles, //A New Technique for Heterodyne Spectroscopy: Least-Squares Frequency Switching (LSFS)//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PASP..119..643H| PASP 119, 643, 2007]] Sources suitable for spectroscopy/line pointing can be found in the [[http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/cgi-bin/obstools/siomaserdb.cgi|ATNF SiO maser database]]. === Opacity correction/determination === Pardo et al., //Atmospheric Transmission at Microwaves (ATM): An Improved Model for mm/submm applications//, [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=982447&tag=1|IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation 49, 1683, 2001]] ITU-R, //Attenuation by atmospheric gases//, [[http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/p/R-REC-P.676-9-201202-I!!PDF-E.pdf|P.676-9, 2012]] Lay, //The temporal power spectrum of atmospheric fluctuations due to water vapor//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997A&AS..122..535L|A&A 122, 535, 1997]] ===== Spectral lines catalogs ===== Database for astronomical spectroscopy [[http://www.cv.nrao.edu/php/splat/|Splatalogue]]. The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy [[https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/|CDMS]]. Atomic Spectra Database [[https://www.nist.gov/pml/atomic-spectra-database/|NIST]] & [[https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/micro/table5/start.pl|LOVAS]]. ===== Backends ===== === FFT spectrometer === Klein et al., //High-resolution wide-band Fast Fourier Transform spectrometers//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012A%26A...542L...3K| A&A 542, 3, 2012]] Klein et al., //The APEX digital Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006A%26A...454L..29K| A&A 454, 29, 2006]] ===== Radio frequency interference (RFI) ===== Gary et al., //A Wideband Spectrometer with RFI Detection//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PASP..122..560G| PASP 112, 560, 2010]] Flöer et al., //RFI mitigation for the Effelsberg Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS)//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010rfim.workE..42F| Conference proceedings of "RFI 2010", POS, 2010]] Fridman, //Statistically Stable Estimates of Variance in Radio-Astronomy Observations as Tools for Radio-Frequency Interference Mitigation//, [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AJ....135.1810F| AJ 135, 1810, 2008]] See also: [[http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=107| Conference proceedings: RFI mitigation workshop (RFI 2010)]] [[http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/cln_1912/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunikation/RegulierungTelekommunikation/Frequenzordnung/Frequenznutzungsplan/FreqNutzungsPlan_node.html;jsessionid=EE26E0D5AD10FC77C747DBE0224089A7|Frequency allocation (German)]] [[https://www.itu.int/sns/database.html|ITU-R registered radio telescopes (and frequency bands)]] ===== Polarization measurements ===== === Zeeman === Robishaw, //Magnetic fields near and far: Galactic and extragalactic single-dish radio observations of the Zeeman effect, [[ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/staff/mgoss/robishaw.thesis.pdf| Ph.D. thesis, Berkeley, 2008]]