FARSIDE
(Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark Ages and Exoplanets)
(concept for a low-frequency radio telescope on the far side of the Moon)
FARSIDE (for Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark Ages and Exoplanets)
is a concept to place a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon.
It would use a rover to deploy 128 antennas over a ~50-km² area,
covering a frequency-range of 40 kHz to 40 MHz.
Among the applications would be a 21-cm experiment.
Such a telescope would have the advantage of elimination of
artificial radio frequency interference (RFI), which is especially beneficial to low frequency radio astronomy.
A more-ambitious such proposal is termed FarView;
FARSIDE is considered a pilot for that project.
(telescope,Moon,NASA,radio,plan)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARSIDE_telescope
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-telescope
https://www.colorado.edu/project/lunar-farside/farside
https://www.colorado.edu/ness/farside-low-radio-frequency-interferometric-array-lunar-farside
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08623
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/May21/radio-astronomy-from-Moon.html
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-might-put-a-huge-telescope-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 7.5m | 40MHz | 165neV | begin | FARSIDE |
| 7.5km | 40kHz | 165peV | end | FARSIDE |
|
Referenced by page:
FarView
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