Beamforming video

© Bruno van Wayenburg

Beamforming is used to develop wide-field radio cameras like Apertif, inaugurated last week in the Netherlands. This technique will also be used to "point" at objects in the sky using the SKA's fixed low-frequency antennas in Australia.

Wondering how it works? This handy animation, that we developed in collaboration with Bruno van Wayenburg, explains the process in just two minutes: https://youtu.be/9Zlh0nQJMfg