Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment in the context of Interferometer


Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment in the context of Interferometer

Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Study page number 1 of 1

Play TriviaQuestions Online!

or

Skip to study material about Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment in the context of "Interferometer"


⭐ Core Definition: Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is an interferometric radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada which consists of four antennas consisting of 100 x 20 metre cylindrical parabolic reflectors with 1024 dual-polarization radio receivers suspended on a support above them. The antenna receives radio waves from hydrogen in space at frequencies in the 400–800 MHz range. The telescope's low-noise amplifiers are built with components adapted from the cellphone industry and its data processed using a custom-built FPGA electronic system and 1000-processor high-performance GPGPU cluster. The telescope has no moving parts and observes half of the sky each day as the Earth turns.

It has also turned out to be a great instrument for observing fast radio bursts (FRBs).

↓ Menu
HINT:

In this Dossier

Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment in the context of Hat Creek Radio Observatory

The Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) is operated by the SETI Institute in the Western United States. The observatory is home to the Allen Telescope Array and one of the three CHIME FRB outriggers, as well a number of other smaller telescopes and instruments.

View the full Wikipedia page for Hat Creek Radio Observatory
↑ Return to Menu