A Radio Telescope for Ireland
The Science and Technology of Radio Astronomy
- Detailed studies of astronomical objects from the Sun to quasars at the edge of the Universe
- Coordinated observing by arrays of radio telescopes can achieve resolutions up to 100 times better than can be obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope
- High-accuracy geophysical investigations of continental drift
- Studies of the interaction between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind, important for telecommunications applications
- Cutting-edge receiver technology to achieve high sensitivities and data collection rates of up to 27 Gbits/second
- Use of high-bandwidth fibre-optic systems for data transmission.
Data Processing Centre of the European VLBI Network in Holland.
Information & Communication Technologies
- Image & signal processing techniques
- High-speed data filtering & storage
- Remote operation techniques
- High throughput optical switching
- Compression algorithms
- Distributed & networked computing
- High-performance computing
Optic Fibres
Hardware Technologies
Radio-reciver cryostat at the Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Cryogenic technology
- Receiver design and optimisation
- Low-noise amplifiers
- High-speed analogue to digital conversion
- Braodband fibre optic networks
- Ultra-fast logic
- Optical & magnetic storage media