Individual telescope of the Square Kilometre Array can also be used to study cosmic background radiation

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. Scientists of Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) with international partners have now examined the SKA-MPG telescope--a prototype for the part of the SKA that receives signals in the mid-frequency range. The study, published today (24 July) in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, shows that the telescope, jointly developed by the MPIfR and M...