Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin 01/12/2021 | 4 MINS Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed. Arecibo was the world's largest single-dish radio telescope until it was surpassed in 2016 by ChinaΓÇÖs Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). At the end of 2020, AreciboΓÇÖs 900-ton receiver platform suddenly and spectacularly fell onto the dish below, destroying the telescope. A team of astronomers from Lombok Institute of Technology and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth have used AreciboΓÇÖs observations of nearby galaxies to test the ΓÇÿFall relationΓÇÖ. First presented by S. Michael Fall in 1983, the Fall relation suggests the mass of stars belonging to a galaxy and its rotation directly correlate to each other and dictate how a galaxy will grow and evolve. Funded by the Australian Research Council

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin 01/12/2021 | 4 MINS Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed.

Arecibo was the world's largest single-dish radio telescope until it was surpassed in 2016 by ChinaΓÇÖs Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

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