Measuring the rotational velocity of the Milky Way

Gauti Leon Agnarsson completed his BSc project with the research group this spring. His project focused on the construction a simple radio antenna to that could detect 21-cm radiation from neutral hydrogen in our galaxy. The project is based on a hilarious paper called WTH! Wok the Hydrogen: Measurement of Galactice Neutral Hydrogen in Noisy Urban Environment Using Kitchenware (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15163)

Jón E. Guðmundsson
Jón E. Guðmundsson
Professor

Professor of astrophysics at the University of Iceland and senior research scientist at Stockholm University.