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WorksheetsMulti-messenger Astronomy
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which of these is not a messenger for astronomy?
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
Neutrons
Gravitational waves
Identify the telescope which is about to launch in the near future.
Supernova is known to emit what of the following (more than 1 option is correct)
Cosmic rays
Neutrino
Electromagnetic waves
Gravitational waves
DUNE is an experiment to detect which of the following Messenger?
Cosmic ray particles
Photons
Gravitational waves
None of the above
Which messenger of astronomy played an important role in getting this image?
Gravitational waves
Neutrinos
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
Identify this
Microwave telescope
UV telescope
IR telescope
Radio telescope
Which could be the hottest star among the following?
What does this image depict?
Absorption Spectral lines
Emission spectral lines
Continuous spectral lines
None of the above
Which messenger of astronomy is not a fundamental particle?
Neutrinos
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
Gravitational waves
What types of waves are gravitational waves?
Transverse - Dipolar
Longitudinal - Dipolar
Transverse - Quadrupolar
Longitudinal - Quadrupolar
What is the principle behind this detector? (more than 1 option is correct)
Superposition
Interference
Diffraction
Refraction
Arrange the phases of Gravitational wave production through Inspiral mechanism
Spiralling - Merger - Ringdown
Merger - Spiralling - Ringdown
Ringdown - Spiralling - Merger
Spiralling - Ringdown - Merger
Which type of Gravitational wave is hard to detect? (more than 1 option is correct)
Compact binary inspiral
Continuous
Stochastic
Burst
Core collapse supernova emits this messenger abundantly
Gravitational waves
Gamma rays
Neutrinos
Cosmic rays
Which of the following has its charge and its anti-particle's charge both to be equal to zero? (more than 1 option is correct)
Muon neutrino
electron neutrino
tau neutrino
cosmic ray particles
Which is the main nuclear reaction that occurs in a core-collapse supernova?
The detector of ICE-CUBE Neutrino Observatory is most sensitive to the following:-
All of the above
The main reasons why neutrinos are least interactive are (more than 1 option is correct)
The rest mass of the neutrino is much smaller than that of the other known elementary particles.
Neutrinos participate only through weak interactions which are very short-ranged.
Because of Neutrino oscillations.
Neutrinos don't have an electric charge
What does this Feynman diagram represent? (more than 1 option is correct)
Beta minus decay
Proton decay
Neutron decay
Identify this detector
Super-Kamiokande
ICE-CUBE
ALBORZ
TRACER
What is the phenomenon observed when the speed of a particle in a medium is more than the speed of light in that particular medium?
Photonic boom
Sonic boom
Cherenkov effect
Anomalous dispersion
Cosmic ray particles are primarily (mostly) made of?
Positrons and electrons
Helium nuclei
Protium nuclei
Neutrinos
Which of the following protects us from cosmic rays. (more than 1 option is correct)
Earth's magnetic field
Atmosphere
Ozone layer
All of the above
What was the method used to find the void in the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt?
Electron tomography
Muon tomography
Tau tomography
None of the above
What is the highest possible total collision energy of LHC till date?
14 Tev
10 Tev
8 Tev
13 Tev
What is the limit that dictates how far can cosmic rays come from?
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit
Planck limit
Victor Hesses limit
Speed limit
What is the occurrence rate of Gamma ray Bursts?
About a 100 per solar system
Proportional to the number of stars in a galaxy
A few per galaxy cluster per year
A few per galaxy per million years
What were the Vela satellites originally designed for?
Detection of Gamma Ray Bursts
Detection of radio signals from outer space
Detection of the covert nuclear weapons test
Communication
The distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts is :-
Prominent near the Large Magellanic Cloud
Isotropic (uniformly distributed)
Prominent near Sagittarius A*
None of the above
Which satellite first detected the X-ray afterglow of a Gamma ray Burst?
BeppoSAX
Castel-Gauss
Vela
Chandra X-ray
