{"id":118,"date":"2011-12-14T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/webtemp\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:56:00","slug":"radio-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Radio Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Solar radio astronomy and LOFAR<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>We are a member of the UK LOFAR consortium and, with support from SUPA, we are investigating the use of LOFAR antennas for solar observations.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Square Kilometre Array<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The Square Kilometre Array is a new type of radio telescope, building on the principles of interferometric radio astronomy but pushing them to new extremes.\u00a0\u00a0 In the EU SKA design study phase (SKADS)\u00a0 Carozzi and Woan developed some fundamental results concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2009MNRAS.395.1558C\">wide-field imaging<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2011ITAP...59.2058C\"> polarisation<\/a>, and we continue our interest in the SKA, particularly for transient detection (in support of gravitational wave observations) and its potential for solar radio astronomy.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Radio astronomy from the Moon<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The Moon, particularly the far side of the Moon, is a promising site for very low frequency (&lt; 50 MHz) radio astronomy.\u00a0 We have a long-term interest in the development of radio instrumentation for a lunar telescope and in radio propagation close to the Moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar radio astronomy and LOFAR We are a member of the UK LOFAR consortium and, with support from SUPA, we are investigating the use of LOFAR antennas for solar observations. The Square Kilometre Array The Square Kilometre Array is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/1755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}