Month: July 2014

Project: Detecting the 1420.4MHz hydrogen line — status report

A while ago, I decided it would be a fun thing to try to detect the 21cm hydrogen line. The 21cm line is a hyperfine structure line of hydrogen; the latter is abundant in interstellar matter in our galaxy (and in other galaxies too). That makes this transition’s radiation an interesting object to study, especially because you can determine the velocity of the regions emitting the raditation quite precisely by […]

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