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Wouldn’t the area of the combined sensor be the sum of the areas of each sensor?
by suifbwish 5y ago
Wouldn’t the area of the combined sensor be the sum of the areas of each sensor?
- ben_w 5y agoYes, if that’s what you’re asking (which is not what I thought this was about). Thought as someone else said, even combined it’s still less than Arecibo.
- Dylan16807 5y ago> it’s still less than Arecibo Which is a huge baseline and getting anywhere near it with so much better resolution could be really impressive.
- ben_w 5y agoWe’ve basically already got one twice the size of Arecibo, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
- Dylan16807 5y agoAlso cool. But the same applies: If an orbital system could get anywhere near SKA with so much better resolution it could be really impressive. If it's a third to half the dish area of Arecibo, and Arecibo is half of SKA, then it qualifies as "anywhere near". And SKA goes up to 14GHz so this theoretical system is completely incomparable on resolution.