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/

• Media:Galactic_Rotation_Curve.pdf‎

• Media:SRT Block Diagram.pdf

• Media:AdvLab_SRT_instrumentation.pdf

• Media:Az_El_Bloomberg.jpg

• Media:vlsr.pdf

• Media:Pulleys.jpg