Eight years after the discovery of the first antenna, engineers have completed the construction of the largest radio observatory
The telescope is equipped with highly sensitive receivers.systems operating close to the quantum limit, according to the press service of the Max Planck Society, which participated in the design and construction of the system. All twelve antennas act as one large radio telescope.
For observation, all antennas are directed to oneregion of space, after which, using interferometry, the signals they received are combined using a supercomputer. With this processing, the resolution of details corresponds to the resolution of a huge telescope, the diameter of which corresponds to the distance between the extreme antennas.
Using a specially designed rail system, individual telescopes can be moved up to 1.7 km. This technology allows you to adjust the telescope for specific studies.
The developers note that NOEMA is one of thefew radio observatories in the world capable of simultaneously detecting and measuring a large number of different signatures - "traces" of various molecules and atoms. With multi-line observations and high sensitivity, it can study the complexity of cold matter in interstellar space and the building blocks of the cosmos. At the same time, it is able to capture the light that has traveled to Earth for more than 13 billion years.
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