Observations of the 21 cm HI Line from the Milky Way galaxy using Pyramidal Horn Radio Telescope

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Main Authors: Bhattacharjee, Kaustav, Grover, Himanshu, Arumugam, P.
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author Bhattacharjee, Kaustav
Grover, Himanshu
Arumugam, P.
author_facet Bhattacharjee, Kaustav
Grover, Himanshu
Arumugam, P.
contents We present the design, implementation, and operation of a pyramidal horn radio telescope built for detecting the Galactic 21 cm neutral hydrogen line emission. The system employs an SDR-based pipeline to obtain drift-scan observations, which were calibrated and processed to generate HI sky maps, a Galactic rotation curve and spiral arm features. This demonstrates that this low-cost system is effective both for educational purposes and scientific exploration of Galactic structure at radio frequencies.
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spellingShingle Observations of the 21 cm HI Line from the Milky Way galaxy using Pyramidal Horn Radio Telescope
Bhattacharjee, Kaustav
Grover, Himanshu
Arumugam, P.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We present the design, implementation, and operation of a pyramidal horn radio telescope built for detecting the Galactic 21 cm neutral hydrogen line emission. The system employs an SDR-based pipeline to obtain drift-scan observations, which were calibrated and processed to generate HI sky maps, a Galactic rotation curve and spiral arm features. This demonstrates that this low-cost system is effective both for educational purposes and scientific exploration of Galactic structure at radio frequencies.
title Observations of the 21 cm HI Line from the Milky Way galaxy using Pyramidal Horn Radio Telescope
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19262