jansky 的定义
plural jan·skies.Astronomy.
- a unit of flux density for electromagnetic radiation, used chiefly in radio astronomy. Abbreviation: Jy
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- He improved upon Jansky’s antenna — a bunch of metal tubes held up by a pivoting wooden trestle — and fashioned a parabolic metal dish for focusing incoming radio waves to a point, where an amplifier boosted the feeble signal.
- Jansky’s discovery was mostly met with mild curiosity by the astronomy community.
- In fact, the very first radio astronomy experiment can be traced back before Jansky to August of 1924, when Mars made its closest pass to Earth in nearly a century.
- Ironically, Jansky’s original goal — to filter out natural sources of radio waves and make way for communication technology — is now reversed for radio astronomers trying to study the universe in the age of modern electronics.
- His efforts were wildly successful, reproducing Jansky’s observations and then creating the first radio map of the sky.
- Later observers, for example Jansky and Moss, established four groups.