Radio_Astronomy

Radio astronomical engineering support, radio source and other calibrators.

The code can be cloned from this site

The documentation was generated with Sphinx.

Examples

Antenna Temperature (K) of Venus Today for a 34-m Antenna at 8.4 GHz

The radio flux of Venus depends on its distance and the frequency. The antenna temperature registered by the radio telescope depends on its size and efficiency:

In [1]: from math import pi
In [2]: from datetime import datetime
In [3]: from Radio_Astronomy import antenna_gain
In [4]: from Radio_Astronomy.radio_flux import get_planet_flux
In [5]: antenna_gain(0.7, pi*(34/2)**2) * get_planet_flux('Venus', 8.4, datetime.now())
Out[5]: 19.696163420934074