At CTU, they found a way to improve the accuracy of measuring distances in space by up to 100 times

The team from the CAPADS laboratory at the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering (FJFI) of the CTU in Prague has credited their breakthrough measurement in the field of intensity optical interferometry, which is essential for accurate measurements of directions and distances in space. The improvements, they say, could significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of cosmic structures and phenomena.

A team of experts, including scientists from the Czech Republic, has described a new way to improve astrometric accuracy by orders of magnitude. They took advantage of the well-known Hanbury Brown–Twiss (HBT) effect by creating a spectrometer that can observe it at multiple frequencies.

Scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have found a way to improve the accuracy of distance measurements in space by up to a hundred times. The team from the CAPADS laboratory at the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering at CTU has performed a breakthrough measurement in so-called intensity optical interferometry, a method for highly accurate measurement of directions and distances in space. The improvement in accur…