Psuedo-triangular texture radio background
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by MyOtherHead
Any significance? Or is it an artifact of the sensor electronics?
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by JeanTate in response to MyOtherHead's comment.
This is indeed an artifact of how the radio images were created. The radio telescopes combine their outputs to produce an image using a technique called interferometry. As the radio telescopes - used to produce our radio images - come from the VLA (link is to Wiki), and as that has a Y shape (see this image, for example), the result is a triangular pattern.
Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃
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