Physics A-Level
Radio astronomy surveys
What Radio astronomy surveys means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Radio astronomy surveys
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Surveys in the 1950s and 1960s that detected strong, compact radio sources before their optical counterparts were recognised.
Topics that use Radio astronomy surveys
- Quasars (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Accretion discs and black hole mass
- Active galactic nuclei
- Cosmological redshift
- estimation
- Gravitational potential energy conversion
- Hubble's law
- Inverse-square law
- Quasars
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