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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of these is not a messenger for astronomy?
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
Neutrons
Gravitational waves
- 2. Multiple Choice
Identify the telescope which is about to launch in the near future.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Supernova is known to emit what of the following (more than 1 option is correct)
Cosmic rays
Neutrino
Electromagnetic waves
Gravitational waves
- 4. Multiple Choice
DUNE is an experiment to detect which of the following Messenger?
Cosmic ray particles
Photons
Gravitational waves
None of the above
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which messenger of astronomy played an important role in getting this image?
Gravitational waves
Neutrinos
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
- 6. Multiple Choice
Identify this
Microwave telescope
UV telescope
IR telescope
Radio telescope
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which could be the hottest star among the following?
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does this image depict?
Absorption Spectral lines
Emission spectral lines
Continuous spectral lines
None of the above
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which messenger of astronomy is not a fundamental particle?
Neutrinos
Electromagnetic waves
Cosmic rays
Gravitational waves
- 10. Multiple Choice
What types of waves are gravitational waves?
Transverse - Dipolar
Longitudinal - Dipolar
Transverse - Quadrupolar
Longitudinal - Quadrupolar
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the principle behind this detector? (more than 1 option is correct)
Superposition
Interference
Diffraction
Refraction
- 12. Multiple Choice
Arrange the phases of Gravitational wave production through Inspiral mechanism
Spiralling - Merger - Ringdown
Merger - Spiralling - Ringdown
Ringdown - Spiralling - Merger
Spiralling - Ringdown - Merger
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which type of Gravitational wave is hard to detect? (more than 1 option is correct)
Compact binary inspiral
Continuous
Stochastic
Burst
- 14. Multiple Choice
Core collapse supernova emits this messenger abundantly
Gravitational waves
Gamma rays
Neutrinos
Cosmic rays
- 15. Multiple Choice
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
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which is the main nuclear reaction that occurs in a core-collapse supernova?
- 17. Multiple Choice
The detector of ICE-CUBE Neutrino Observatory is most sensitive to the following:-
All of the above
- 18. Multiple Choice
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
- 19. Multiple Choice
What does this Feynman diagram represent? (more than 1 option is correct)
Beta minus decay
Proton decay
Neutron decay
- 20. Multiple Choice
Identify this detector
Super-Kamiokande
ICE-CUBE
ALBORZ
TRACER
- 21. Multiple Choice
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
- 22. Multiple Choice
Cosmic ray particles are primarily (mostly) made of?
Positrons and electrons
Helium nuclei
Protium nuclei
Neutrinos
- 23. Multiple Choice
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
- 24. Multiple Choice
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
- 25. Multiple Choice
What is the highest possible total collision energy of LHC till date?
14 Tev
10 Tev
8 Tev
13 Tev
- 26. Multiple Choice
What is the limit that dictates how far can cosmic rays come from?
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit
Planck limit
Victor Hesses limit
Speed limit
- 27. Multiple Choice
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
- 28. Multiple Choice
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
- 29. Multiple Choice
The distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts is :-
Prominent near the Large Magellanic Cloud
Isotropic (uniformly distributed)
Prominent near Sagittarius A*
None of the above
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which satellite first detected the X-ray afterglow of a Gamma ray Burst?
BeppoSAX
Castel-Gauss
Vela
Chandra X-ray
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