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NEW HORIZENS FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY 1993-1996

J. B. Whiteoak President IAU Commission 40

PRESIDENT: J.B. Whiteoak (Australia)
VICE PRESIDENT: J.M. Moran (USA)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: K.R. Anantharamaiah (India), E.E. Baart (South Africa), L.B. Baath (Sweden), E.M. Berkhuijsen (Germany), F.R. Colomb (Argentina), R.J. Davis (UK), H.R. Dickel (USA), E. Gerard (France), J. Gomez Gonzalez (Spain), I.V. Gosachinskij (Russia), K.J. Johnston (USA), M. Morimoto (Japan), L. Padrielli (Italy), T. Velusamy (USA), S. Ye (China)

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There have been many advances in radio astronomy during the last three years, and a sample of these are highlighted in the following Report. The coverage of all facets of radio astronomy is certainly not uniform, because much of the text has been provided as voluntary contributions by Commission 40 members, and the finished report will therefore be weighted according to individual interests. Nevertheless, hopefully this Report will show the enormous scope of today'’s radio astronomy, and reflect some of the excitement of the latest findings.

 
• Radio Telescopes, Instrumentation and Techniques
  • Radio Telescopes
    • Single Aperture Instruments
      • Sub-millimetre Wavelength Telescopes.
      • Millimetre Wavelength Telescopes.
      • Centimetre to Metre Wavelength Telescopes.
      • Orbiting Telescopes.
    • Antenna Arrays
      • Existing Sub-millimetre/Millimetre Wavelength Arrays.
      • Future Sub-millimetre/Millimetre Wavelength Arrays.
      • Centimetre to Metre Wavelength Arrays.
      • The Square Kilometre Array.
    • LBI and VLBI Networks
      • Millimetre Wavelength Networks.
      • Centimetre Wavelength Networks.
      • Space VLBI.
      • VBLI Techniques and Recording Systems.
      • Radio Astrometry.
  • New Sites for Radio Astronomy
    • Radio Astronomy from Antarctica
    • Future Radio Astronomy from the Moon
  • The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
  • Instrumentation
    • Multi Beam Systems
  • Techniques
    • Mosaicing
    • Data Processing
    • Laboratory Molecular Spectroscopy
• New Observational Radio Astronomy
  • Our Galaxy
    • Solar Neighbourhood
      • Solar Radio Astronomy.
      • Solar Wind, Asteroids, Comets.
      • Planets.
    • Beyond the Solar System
      • Stellar Radio Emission.
      • Circumstellar Envelopes.
      • Protoplanetary Disks.
      • Pulsars.
      • Planetary Nebulae.
      • Galactic Superluminal Sources.
      • Supernova Remnants.
      • Galactic Plane Continuum Surveys
      • Interstellar Medium.
      • Molecular Clouds and Star Forming Regions.
      • Galactic Centre Region.
  • Extragalactic Phenomena
    • Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
      • Continuum Observations.
      • HI Observations.
      • Molecular Cloud Observations.
    • Other Relatively Nearby Galaxies.
      • Continuum Emission and Structure
      • Magnetic Fields.
      • HI, Molecules and Dust.
      • Recombination-line Observations.
      • Supernova Remnants.
    • Galaxy Clusters, Mergers, Interactions etc
      • Radio Halos in Clusters.
    • Megamaser Galaxies
      • OH Megamasers.
      • HO Megamasers.
    • Radio Galaxies, AGNs and Quasars
      • Nuclear Structure.
      • X-ray Environment.
      • Jets.
      • Spectral Relationships.
      • A Unified Theory? (See also section on Jets).
    • High-z Galaxies
    • Gravitational Lenses
    • Extragalactic Source Surveys
    • Cosmic Microwave Background.
      • Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect.
• Radio Frequency Interference to Radio Astronomy
  • Inter-Union Commission on the Allocation of Frequencies to Radio Astronomy and Space Science
  • Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies
  • Handbooks on Radio Astronomy
  • GLONASS and Radio Interference at 1612 MHz
  • Searches and Monitoring at 1612 MHz
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