The record
Where DSPIRA is used
Classrooms, clubs, courses and conference halls where this hardware and these lessons have turned up.
These lessons are free to use without notifying us. This list includes only the groups we know about. If your group belongs on it, say so in the forum or email rail@wvu.edu.
Groups that published results from their hardware appear in Community Labs.
Taught with
ASTR 735: Radio Astronomy — Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi. Jonathan Williams runs a one-credit seminar for graduate students and senior undergraduates. Its summary is “a github repo with everything you need to build a horn telescope”. DSPIRA is among its resources. Fall 2021.
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Education programs — Green Bank Observatory’s current educational programs and classroom resources. The observatory partnered with WVU on DSPIRA’s six-week summer research program for high school teachers.
Presented
Interferometry Using Very Affordable Radio Horn Telescopes — John Makous, Concord University. Sixteen slides introduce two-horn interferometry, the Green Bank setup, and measured fringes. Presented at the CSAAPT Fall 2023 meeting. Makous also wrote LightWork Memo 31 and contributed to gr-radio_astro.
Observing Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Using Radioastronomy — poster, 2023 Spring Meeting of the APS Eastern Great Lakes Section. A former student built this portable DSPIRA telescope. They measured 21 cm column densities and compared them with published values.
Testing the Effectiveness of the DSPIRA Radio Telescope for Public Use — Victoria Blanton, WVU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience 2021. The write-up is in Community Labs.
Written about
Engineering professors to utilize Green Bank telescope in K-12 teacher research experience — WVU Statler College, September 2016. The announcement of the award that started it, before the first cohort arrived.
Elsewhere
PhysicsOpenLab publishes independent hydrogen line work; theirs is in Community Labs.
WISRD runs radio telescopes beside a cosmic-ray detector. Its full name is the Wildwood Institute for STEM Research and Development. See their work in Community Labs.
LightWork Memos — the numbered memo series on citizen science with radio telescopes, several of which use this hardware.