Credit: NASA/Hubble
Golomb patterns have many fantastic applications, but what makes them most relevant to astronomy is their use in laying out telescopes of small aperture antennas. Imagine the image on the top is the "true sky view"---the sky as if it was captured perfectly. Select one of the Golomb grid patterns on the right to see how the image would look if synthesized by telescopes of small aperture antennas arranged in that pattern. The image processing simulates the synthesis of the input image as if the image is captured by an array of small aperture antennas of which the diameters are equal to the grid cell’s side length and the locations are equal to the grid cells’ positions in the Golomb grid. You can read more about the mathematics of this in an article by our own Dr. Nargess Memarsadeghi. (Note: If you encounter issues with the updated image displaying, please make sure you are using an updated version of your browser.)
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