The Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART) project

Lindsay M. Berkhout; Adam P. Beardsley; Daniel C. Jacobs; Raven Braithwaite; Bryanna Gutierrez-Coatney; Arib Islam; Ahlea Wright

doi:10.1088/1361-6552/ad0542

The Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART) project

Lindsay M. Berkhout, Adam P. Beardsley, Daniel C. Jacobs, Raven Braithwaite, Bryanna Gutierrez-Coatney, Arib Islam, Ahlea Wright

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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We present the Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART), a project that provides hands-on radio instrumentation and design experience to undergraduates while bringing accessible radio astronomy experiments to high school students and teachers. Here we describe a system which can detect 21 cm emission from the Milky Way which is optimised for cost and simplicity of construction. Software, documentation, and tutorials are all completely open source to improve the user experience and facilitate community involvement. We demonstrate the design with several observations which we compare with state-of-the-art surveys. The system is shown to detect galactic 21 cm emission in both rural and urban settings.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	015020
Journal	Physics Education
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/ad0542
State	Published - Jan 1 2024

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Milky Way Galaxy
radio astronomy
radio telescopes

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