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| Name: PRATIK KUMAR Affiliation: IISER TVM Conference ID: ASI2016_747 Title : EVERYDAY RADIO TELESCOPE Authors and Co-Authors : Devansh Agarwal,IISER Thiruvananthapuram Pranshu Mandal,IISER Thiruvananthapuram Kanchan Soni,IISER Thiruvananthapuram Anjali Yelikar,IISER Thiruvananthapuram Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Instrumentation and Techniques Abstract : Everyday Radio Telescope forms an accessible medium for observing radio sources. It is a commercially available telescope based on the satellite television receiving system. The telescope uses parabolic dish antenna for receiving radio signals. Here, in this project we designed Everyday Radio Telescope for observing the sun. We aimed to measure the Sun's brightness temperature at 11 GHz and-and the antenna beam width with our effective dish size 0.2177 square meters and sensitivity 0.5MJy.We currently measured the Sun's brightness temperature 13966.4K with an 8.6% uncertainty along with antenna beam width 3 degrees. Here we demonstrate how this small telescope can be used to measure the flux density from the solar observations and correlate them with presently available data. With the increased sensitivity we report the detection of Saturn and extended sources like the galactic arm of the Milky way. |