Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy

Foreword



Preface







1 Introduction - From Radar to Radio Astronomy



References







2 Frontier Life at the Field Stations



2.1 Introduction



2.2 Dover Heights



2.3 Georges Heights



2.4 Hornsby Valley



2.5 Bankstown Aerodrome



2.6 Potts Hill



2.7 Penrith



2.8 Dapto



2.9 Badgery's Creek



2.10 Fleurs



2.11 Murraybank



References







3 Exploring the Neighbourhood - the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter



3.1 The Sun



3.1.1 The first solar observations at Radiophysics



3.1.2 Solar eclipses and solar bursts



3.1.3 Classifying solar bursts at Penrith and Dapto



3.1.4 Studies of the 'quiet Sun' at Potts Hill



3.2 The Moon



3.3 Jupiter



References







4 Expanding Horizons - the Milky Way and Beyond



4.1 Discovery of the First Discrete Radio Sources



4.2 From Dover Heights to Fleurs



4.3 Radio Emission from the Galactic Centre



4.4 Surveys of the Background Radio Emission



4.5 Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen



4.6 Radio Emission from Stars



References







5 Where did it all Lead?



5.1 Beyond the Doors of Radiophysics



5.2 Big Science comes to Australia



5.3 Changing of the Guard



5.4 Pulsars - Cosmic Lighthouses at Radio Wavelengths



5.5 A Birthday Present for the Nation



5.6 A Radio Telescope as Wide as Australia



5.7 Simply Astronomical - the Square Kilometre Array



References







Bibliography on Early Australian Radio Astronomy



About the Authors



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Open Access;History of radio astronomy;CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory;John Bolton;Taffy Bowen;Chris Christiansen;Discrete radio sources;Field stations;Hydrogen-line studies;Frank Kerr;Mills Cross;Bernie Mills;Parkes Radio Telescope;Joe Pawsey;Ruby Payne-Scott;Radio source surveys;Radioheliograph;Sea interferometers;Alex Shain;Solar bursts and eclipses