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RE: Radio Telescopes - The strange thing called interferometry

in #science6 years ago

Thanks, @leaky20 for your visit and kind words! :)

To be honest I really didn't put much effort into explaining... We spent about 7 days learning about all the stuff... and still apart from a bit of an upgrade to the basic concept (which I already knew before) I have no idea how it functions. :)

There is this fly's eyes mode - which is used to detect a type of objects called FRB - Fast Radio Bursts - that just happen out of the dark in the sky and disappear... now they might appear again, but that is completely random. This method is used on a different set of telescopes with 36 antennas.