South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...
AllAfrica.com5 天
South African Telescope Locates Galaxy 32 Times Bigger Than Earth
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble' in both Xhosa and Zulu, due to the difficulty in understanding the ...
IEEE1 年
Optical spectroscopy of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 during the 2014 periastron passage with the ...
We report on the optical spectroscopic monitoring of the system from 33 d before to 78 d after periastron, undertaken with the Southern African Large Telescope. The Hα and He I (λ6678) lines exhibit ...
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South African telescope uncovers massive galaxy 32 times larger than Earth’s Milky Way
In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the supermassive ... However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, has turned this idea on ...
University of Manchester5 年
Caught in the act: MeerKAT telescope spies stellar flare
The orbital period was determined using optical observations with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). Fortuitously, the star is sufficiently bright to have also been monitored by optical ...
IEEE11 个月
Wavelength calibration of arc spectra using intensity modelling
Line blending is automatically incorporated as part of the model. The method has been implemented and successfully tested on spectra taken with the Robert Stobie spectrograph of the Southern African ...