CANADIAN HYDROGEN INTENSITY MAPPING EXPERIMENT (CHIME)

June 12, 2021

Scientists with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue.

About:

  • CHIME is an interferometric radio telescope.

  • It is located in British Columbia, Canada.

  • It consists of four antennas consisting of 100 x 20 metre cylindrical parabolic reflectors with 1024 dual-polarization radio receivers suspended on a support above them.

  • The antenna receives radio waves from hydrogen in space at frequencies in the 400–800 MHz range.

Source : The Hindu