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Bangalore students may help solve cosmic mysteries

5 youngsters from Bangalore may be part of building world's largest radio telescope.

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Five undergraduate students from the city can soon be part of the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope project, Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Arvind Sai Kumar, Bharath S, Surabhi GD, Kashyap N and Nivedita M, who are currently part of a two-month summer course offered by city-based Raman Research Institute (RRI) on signals and systems in radio astronomy, stand a chance to represent India in the SKA project.

“India is part of the international community that is building the SKA, which is going to be sited in Australia and South Africa.  We would like to have more Indians participating in this project. In order to nurture youngsters who can be part of the SKA in radio astronomy, we have started this two-month long course,” Ravi Subrahmanyan, director of RRI, told dna.

He added that these students are currently working on building a radio telescope, which will be an antenna array that receives and processes electromagnetic signals from astronomical sources using analog and digital signal processing methods.

Kashyap, a student at BMS College of Engineering, said that apart from lectures and talks, the programme includes fieldwork at the RRI’s Gauribidanur Observatory located about 80 km north of Bangalore. Surabhi said the course covered a wide range of topics, from radio astronomy and radio telescopes to antenna arrays.

“The course promised to give us a real hands-on experience and we are indeed experiencing it,”  Surabhi said.

Subrahmanyan said the programme would conclude on August 31 and the students could continue this interaction throughout the year. “We would like it if they could come back to the institute. Besides, we also want to get them to learn how to work as a team because big projects in science is achieved only as a team,” he added.
 

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