Project Outline

As a group of 7 individuals, we worked together to construct, measure the characteristics of, and use a spectroscopic receiver for atomic hydrogen line measurements. This was to be used with the 3.0 metre radio telescope located on the roof of Science B. The project consists of four sections:

1. Characterisation of the signal path from the antenna to the digitizer.
2. Digitization of the signal and construction in software of a spectrometer.
3. Calibration of the telescope to provide output spectra in units of brightness temperature of the sky.
4. Measurement of the strength and shape of an HI spectral line in the direction of a line of sight through the plane of the Galaxy.

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