| 6th of July 2016 |
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| ATNF Colloquium |
| MeerKAT status and progress |
| by Laura Richter (SKA South Africa) |
| Abstract. MeerKAT is an SKA pathfinder
telescope located in South Africa. Currently under construction, it will
consist of sixty-four 13.5m parabolic antennas with a maximum baseline length
of 8km. In this talk I will discuss the current status of MeerKAT, as well as
some of the history of the SKA South Africa project. I will include some
detail of the MeerKAT science data processor, with a focus on the calibration
pipeline. Image credit/caption: SKA South Africa aerial view and 100MHz bandwidth 4 Antenna MeerKAT test image (Tom Mauch). |