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Four parabolic radio dishes stand aligned against the arid plateau landscape south of Mount Erciyes.
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Plateau radio telescope array completes baseline calibration for pulsars and neutral hydrogen

Astrophysicists stationed on the high volcanic plains of Kayseri have synchronized four steerable dish antennas. The radio interferometer tracks faint hydrogen emissions across galactic arms from an altitude free from coastal humidity.

Emre Çelik2 min read
1,850 maltitude of the volcanic plateau baseline observation facility
1.42 GHzfrequency tuned to observe the 21-centimeter neutral hydrogen line
4 dishessteerable parabolic antennas linked into an interferometric array

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