Radio Telescope

Description

In this lab you can measure the orbital velocity of the galactic disk as a function of radius (the "rotation curve") using the doppler shift of HI emission.

• http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/undergrad/srt/

• File:Galactic Rotation Curve.pdf

• File:SRT Block Diagram.pdf

• Media:AdvLab_SRT_instrumentation.pdf

• File:Vlsr.pdf