{"id":28285,"date":"2019-11-01T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/?p=28285"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:29:41","slug":"observing-with-the-engineering-development-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/observing-with-the-engineering-development-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Observing with the Engineering Development Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>November 2019\u2019s Monthly Media was of nearly 2 days of observing with the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwatelescope.org\/telescope\/external\/eda\">Engineering Development Array 2<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(EDA2) at the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO), from Associate Professor\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffportal.curtin.edu.au\/staff\/profile\/view\/R.Wayth\/\">Randall Wayth<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-liftup-border-radius:0px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><div class=\"awb-image-frame awb-image-frame-1 imageframe-liftup\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"497\" title=\"GIF_15.8MB\" src=\"http:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GIF_15.8MB.gif\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-28287\"\/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><i><span style=\"font-size: 14px\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">The Milky Way, the Sun, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A and other space objects as they pass overhead.<\/span> <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">This above GIF shows snapshots of the radio sky above the Murchison Radio Observatory taken at 64 second intervals at a frequency of 230 MHz, covering roughly 1.75 days of continuous data. The colour bar at the bottom shows radio intensity (brightness) in the commonly-used astronomer units of Jy\/beam (Jansky per beam). The celestial coordinate system (CCS) is also overlaid on the image to aid the eye (the gridded circle), and the apparent low-level radio emission outside the CCS is an artefact of the imaging process and is not real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">The EDA2 tests the proposed antenna layout of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.curtin.edu.au\/research\/ska_low\/\">SKA-LOW<\/a><\/span>\u00a0using the current technology of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwatelescope.org\/\">Murchison Widefield Array<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(MWA) dipoles.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":28286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,24,4,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curtin","category-monthly-media","category-mwa-eor","category-outreach","category-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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