Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-r5zm4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-15T17:39:15.609Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Radio Stars, What They are and The Prospects for their Use in Navigational Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Kevin Wallace
Kevin Wallace
Affiliation:
(Admiralty Research Establishment, Slough)
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The chief failing of surface astronavigation in its traditional form is reliability – it needs clear skies! Any solution to this limitation must therefore centre on a more weather-independent means of both detecting and identifying astronomical objects. This implies that the detection process should be conducted not in the optical but in the radio waveband, although radio astronomy makes it clear that the rather simple distribution and ‘point’-like images seen visually do not exist at radio wavelengths.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 358 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1Shapiro, A., Uliana, E. A. and Yaplee, B. S.(1972). Very Long Baseline Interferometry Navigation Using Natural H2O Sources. Naval Research Laboratory, NRL Report 7365.Google Scholar
2Neal, C. S. and Charman, P. A. (1983). An Investigation into the Feasibility of all Weather Passive Astro Navigation Systems. Cambridge Consultants Limited (Contract No. C1745).Google Scholar
3Wallace, K. (1984). The Radio Emission of the Sun in the Microwave Region. MSc. dissertation, Queen Mary College, London.Google Scholar
4Kruger, A. (1979). Introduction to Solar Radio Astronomy. Dordrecht: Reidel.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5Zheleznyakov, V. V. (1970). Radio Emmission of the Sun and Planets. Oxford: Pergamon.Google Scholar
6Christiansen, W. N. (1966). The Design of Radio Telescopes. J. Inst. Telecomm. Engrs, 12, 146–157.Google Scholar
7Egau, P. C. (1984). Correlation systems in radio astronomy and related fields. Inst. Elect. Engrs Proc, F, 131, No. 1.Google Scholar