Together, the telescopes create a virtual dish 9000 kilometers wide that can detect
the faintest radio emissions from distant galaxies.
The GBT is uniquely designed to detect extremely
faint radio emissions from the distant universe.
Not exact matches
In earlier observations,
emission from two or more
faint objects often was blurred or blended into what appeared to be a single, stronger source of
radio waves.
However, the researchers pointed out, the remaining 4 percent of the
radio emission could be coming from as many as 100 billion very
faint objects.
Mini-jets of material ejected from a central supermassive black hole appear to be the culprits behind
faint radio wave
emissions in «
radio - quiet» quasars.
Quasars turn out to be prodigious broadcasters of
radio emissions, issuing
faint whispers of smooth jazz and shadow traffic from across the inky vastness of Space.
That will have to wait, Schinnerer said, because the
radio emission from CO molecules that provides the information on temperature and turbulence is very
faint.
The great difficulty in analyzing these low - mass galactic building blocks has been that their natural
radio emission is extremely
faint.