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Imaging the sky in radio domain Andrzej Marecki Centre for Astronomy Copernicus University Toruń
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Visible light is only a tiny part of the whole electromagnetic spectrum
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Stellar spectra. Stars shine in optical domain.
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Milky way galaxy – an optical image
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Milky Way galaxy at 1420 MHz
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Milky Way galaxy at 408 MHz
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Some active galaxies are best visible in radio domain.
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Professional camera has a large lens.
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CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) matrix
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Willard S. Boyle George E. Smith 2009 Pioneers of digital photography
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Camera obscura
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Diffraction
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Airy disk
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100-inch Hooker telescope
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Hubble Space Telescope
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Radio telescope – principle of operation
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25-m radio telescope
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1.5GHz 20cm 2.3GHz 13cm 4.8GHz 6cm 8.4GHz 4cm 14GHz 2cm 23GHz 1.3cm 43GHz 7mm 86GHz 3mm 327MHz 90cm 610MHz 50cm
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32-m radio telescope near Toruń
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„Focus box” of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope
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25-m radio telescopes
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Very Large Array
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Synthesized (virtual) beam of the VLA
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„Dirty” (left) and „clean” (right) VLA images
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Martin Ryle (1918-1984) inventor of radio astronomical interferometry 1974
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M81 Group
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MERLIN array
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Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI ) is an equivalent of Earth-sized radio telescope
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VLBI – principle of operation
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Very Long Baseline Array
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European VLBI Network (EVN)
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European VLBI Network
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VLBI – observation
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VLBI – correlation
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3.2 TB disk pack used for VLBI instead of tapes
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Cygnus A - VLA versus VLBA
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Supernova shell SN1993J
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VLAEVN+MERLIN B0818+214
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