Speakers
Lindsay Berkhout
(ASU)Ms
Lindsay Berkhout
(Arizona State University)
Description
The Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART) is a radio astronomy platform aimed at high school students and teachers. The project offers online tutorials and code for building an inexpensive instrument to detect the 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way. Complete parts for the project can be acquired for under $300. The base platform is intended to work out of the box for this experiment, but is easily reconfigurable for other parts and applications. The spectrometer uses the RTL-SDR module and a custom GNURadio application which can be operated via a python-based GUI. Users analyze data in jupyter notebooks. Template code is available for flagging, calibration, plotting, and similar functions.
| Talk Length | 15 Minutes |
|---|---|
| Link to Open Source Code | https://github.com/astrochart |
Primary author
Ms
Lindsay Berkhout
(Arizona State University)
Co-authors
Prof.
Adam Beardsley
(Winona State University)
Prof.
Daniel Jacobs
(Arizona State University)
