Instruments

After the success of the testing of the UPSI-UM radio telescope, in 2022, we ventured into converting the fully-steerable 13 meter satellite dish receiver located at the Malaysian Space Agency's Temerloh Earth Receiving Station. An MOA is yet to be signed but early joint collaborations are already underway in order to make this dish into a dual purpose radio telescope-satellite receiver system.

It was the first "pathfinder" radio telescope observatory in Malaysia. It was constructed at UPSI under the MOA signed between UM and UPSI, which ended in October 2021. The 7 m diameter L-band radio dish started radio astronomers efforts in interferometric fringe testing with China and Japan.

The HWDA array was designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan Astronomical Observatory (YNAO). Through a research collaboration with UM, a replicate of it was constructed in UM at the selected site on its campus. The ultimate goal is to have a VLBI array between the antennas in YNAO and UM.

It is a global system of radio spectrometers created solely for 24/7 observation on Sun’s activity. Solar radio monitoring activities at radio wavelength using CALLISTO in Malaysia started in February 2012 as a joint-project between ETH Zurich, UM and Malaysia National Space Agency (ANGKASA). The first CALLISTO station in Malaysia is located on top of an ANGKASA building at Sungai Lang, Banting, Selangor.

The Radio Direction Finder (RDF) is a radio goniometer used in scientific research on pre-seismic radio emissions and was developed by the Radio Emissions Project. It is a computerized radio receiver dedicated to the detection of the direction of the electromagnetic radiation received to the use of directional radio antennas, which have a privileged reception direction. The RDF system measures the angle formed by the direction of the captured radio wave and the axes according to which the antennas are aligned.