Building the instrument required solving a host of engineering problems, ranging from dealing with a remote, barely accessible site, shielding the dish
from radio frequency interference that would drown out the signals from cosmic objects, and developing a first - of - its - kind method to pull a portion of the spherical dish into a gradually moving paraboloid to aim at and track astronomical targets as Earth rotates.
Not exact matches
Just as
radio channels close to each other in
frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can
radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.
Dan Wertheimer, chief scientist for the SETI@home project, says the Wow signal was almost certainly pollution:
radio -
frequency interference from Earth - based transmissions.
The mission of CRAF is to keep the
frequency bands used for
radio astronomical observations free
from interference, to argue the scientific needs of the European research community for continued access to and availability of the
radio spectrum for
radio astronomy, and to support related science communities in their needs concerning
interference - free
radio frequency bands for passive use.
The Green Bank
Interference Protection Group is responsible for minimizing radio frequency interference to astronomical observations from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet
Interference Protection Group is responsible for minimizing
radio frequency interference to astronomical observations from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet Zone (N
radio frequency interference to astronomical observations from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet
interference to astronomical observations
from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia
Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet Zone (N
Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National
Radio Quiet Zone (N
Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ).
This is why it is incredibly important for the science we do that we are protected by two separate regulations which protect the GBT and the other site instruments
from locally produced
radio frequency interference.