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The Chandra Observatory orbiting the Earth is designed to:
b. Replace the Hubble Telescope, with a much larger mirror for collecting visable light
c. Search for rapidlt changing radio signals
d. Examine sources of cosmic rays
The Chandra Observatory is also called as Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility.
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- b) Which of the two proposals described below would you choose to fund? Project Beta: An X-ray wavelength telescope, located near the North Pole, which will be used to examine the Sun. Project Alpha: An infrared wavelength telescope, placed on a satellite in orbit around Earth, which will be used to view supernovae. Exploin VOur rooooning1. we have an interferometer with arms of 10 meters in length and a gravitational wave of peak strain h = 10-21, what will be the peak displacement of the interferometer mirrors? What if our interferometer has 4 km arms? Show your work.Imagine that you are the head of a funding agency that can afford to build one telescope. Which of the following proposed telescopes would be best to support? A. a visible light telescope in Earth orbit B. An x-ray telescope located on a mountain in Chile C. A gamma ray telescope in Hawaii D. An ultraviolet telescope located in Earth orbit
- Which of these telescopes that detect visible and infrared light has the largest mirror, that is, the most "light gathering" capability? Hubble Space Telescope, now in low Earth orbit. The Vera Rubin telescope now under construction. in Chile. James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched by NASA and ESA this month. Palomar telescope, in California north of San Diego.Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the next generation of planned telescopes? Answers: A. multiple focus points B. extreme size C. segmented mirrors D. adaptive optics E. multiple wavebandsThe Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico is observing the radio spectrum of a distant star. It observes an anomaly at a frequency of 28 MHz. What wavelength of light does this correspond to in base Sl units? *Give answers to at least three significant figures. DO NOT submit answers in scientific notation. Use symbols for units (i.e. m, s, kg, N)* Your Answer: Answer units