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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 607384, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/607384
Review Article
Large Radio Telescopes for Anomalous Microwave Emission Observations
1Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
2CSIRO, Astronomy and Space Science, P.O. Box 276, Parkes, NSW 2870, Australia
Received 3 August 2012; Accepted 19 October 2012
Academic Editor: Clive Dickinson
Copyright © 2012 E. S. Battistelli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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