Details in the structure of a distant quasar
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 15:20
in Astronomy & Space
After first tests of the individual antennas, the observations now bring together eight stations of the 'LOw Frequency ARray' (LOFAR), Five stations in the Netherlands were connected with three stations in Germany: Effelsberg near Bonn, Tautenburg near Jena and Unterweilenbach near Munich. All antennas were targeted at the quasar 3C 196, a strong radio source at a distance of several billions of light years. 'We chose this object for the first tests, because we know its structure very well from observations at shorter wavelengths,' explains Olaf Wucknitz (AIfA)...