\u00a9 iStock\/zrfphoto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRohit Dokara, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) and lead author on a paper about the remnants, said: “This is an important step to solve this longstanding mystery of the missing supernova remnants.”<\/p>\n
Surveying star formation<\/h3>\n The researchers amalgamated data from the VLA and the Effelberg telescope to observe the region they studied comprehensively. The multi-antenna VLA is an interferometer that combines signals from widely separated antennas to create images with an extremely high resolution that show small details; however, this system is unable to detect large-scale structures. Nevertheless, by utilising the 100-metre-diameter Effelsberg telescope that is proficient in capturing data on large-scale structures, the team can obtain the complete image.<\/p>\n
“This clearly demonstrates that the Effelberg telescope is still very crucial, even after 50 years of operation,” said Andreas Brunthaler of MPIfR, project leader and first author of the survey’s overview paper.<\/p>\n
Radio telescopes are vital to revealing dust-shrouded star formation regions, as their radio waves can penetrate the dust that absorbs visible light.<\/p>\n
William Cotton, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), who is an expert in combining interferometer and single-telescope data, said: “The results from GLOSTAR, combined with other radio and infrared surveys, offers astronomers a nearly complete census of massive star-forming clusters at various stages of formation, and this will have lasting value for future studies.”<\/p>\n
“GLOSTAR is the first map of the Galactic Plane at radio wavelengths that detects many of the important star formation tracers at high spatial resolution. The detection of atomic and molecular spectral lines is critical to determine the location of star formation and to better understand the structure of the galaxy,” said Dana Falser, also of NRAO.<\/p>\n
The initiator of GLOSTAR, the MPIfR’s Karl Menten, said, “It’s great to see the beautiful science resulting from two of our favourite radio telescopes joining forces.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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