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Combining ASKAP's EMU survey and MeerKAT enables complementary
science; ASKAP's large FoV enables the discovery of new/rare types of
objects, like Odd Radio Circles (ORCs), while MeerKAT's sensitivity
enables deep follow up of such objects. I will speak about both
instruments and how they are being used to open up new phase spaces of
discovery, with a particular focus on the spectral indices and
polarisation of ORCs, and my experience using these telescopes within
the clouds across the continents of middle-earth! As an essential part
of this research, I will speak about a number of tools and systems
that have been developed or adopted to deal with the PB scale of
MeerKAT data at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive
Astronomy (IDIA). I will present a number of these tools and
underlying systems, deployed on IDIA's ilifu facility, including those
for storage, processing, visualisation, and data transfers.
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