TEHRAN (IP) – A team consisting of researchers from the Astronomy Research Institute of the IPM Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, together with a group of scientists from different countries, have participated in the project of building the “world’s biggest radio telescope,” a telescope which is said to have a 100-time better resolution than the James Webb Space Telescope.
A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by astronomical objects, just as optical telescopes are the main observing instrument used in traditional optical astronomy, which studies the light wave portion of the spectrum coming from astronomical objects. Unlike optical telescopes, radio telescopes can be used in the daytime as well as at night.
Fatemeh Tabatabai is a member of the scientific staff of the Astronomy Research Institute of the IPM Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences and a member of the working group of the SKA Observatory, researcher and director of one of the international scientific working groups for the construction of the world’s most giant radio telescope which have recently investigated the ability of this observatory to detect and study normal spiral galaxies in early cosmic times in group studies.
Tabatabai says the importance of this study is that, for the first time, it simulates today’s galaxies in the early times of the universe at radio wavelengths, and at the same time, it offers suggestions about the requirements and prerequisites of the SKA telescope to detect these signals.