Psuedo-triangular texture radio background

• by MyOtherHead

  Any significance? Or is it an artifact of the sensor electronics?

  Posted September 5, 2016 8:32 AM

• 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! 😃

  Posted September 5, 2016 2:08 PM