Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988faom.work..113d&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Future Astronomical Observatories on the Moon p 113-118 (SEE N89-15810 07-89)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Astronomical Observatories, Lunar Bases, Lunar Far Side, Lunar Observatories, Radio Astronomy, Radio Telescopes, Interstellar Matter, Low Cost, Point Sources, Spectral Resolution, Very Low Frequencies
Scientific paper
Because of terrestrial ionospheric absorption, very little is known of the radio sky beyond 10 m wavelength. An extremely simple, low cost very low frequency radio telescope is proposed, consisting of a large array of short wires laid on the lunar surface, each wire equipped with an amplifier and a digitizer, and connected to a common computer. The telescope could do simultaneous multifrequency observations of much of the visible sky with high resolution in the 10 to 100 m wavelength range, and with lower resolution in the 100 to 1000 m range. It would explore structure and spectra of galactic and extragalactic point sources, objects, and clouds, and would produce detailed quasi-three-dimensional mapping of interstellar matter within several thousand parsecs of the Sun.
Douglas James N.
Smith Harlan J.
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