MeerKAT
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MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA. MeerKAT was launched in 2018. MeerKAT is located inside a radio quiet zone within the park.
Official website
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The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a facility of the National Research Foundation, is responsible for managing all radio astronomy initiatives and facilities in South Africa, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in the Karoo, and the Geodesy and VLBI activities at the HartRAO facility., The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a facility of the National Research Foundation, is responsible for managing all radio astronomy initiatives and facilities in South Africa, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in the Karoo, and the Geodesy and VLBI activities at the HartRAO facility.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- radio interferometer
- Part of
- Square Kilometre Array
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Northern Cape
- Area
- 9000
- Location
- Meerkat National Park
- Diameter
- 13.5
- Official website
- www.sarao.ac.za
- Image
- MeerKAT Radio Telescope.jpg
- Has parts of class
- telescope
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- minimum wavelength of sensitivity
- 3
- maximum wavelength of sensitivity
- 30
- service entry
- 2016-07-16
- Commons category
- MeerKAT
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Specifications
- Construction schedule
- Inauguration
- Science objectives
- Site
- Discoveries
- South Africa and SKA science and technology
- Capacity development for radio astronomy in Africa
- African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN)
- See also
- References
- External links
MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA. MeerKAT was launched in 2018. MeerKAT is located inside a radio quiet zone within the park.
Along with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), also in South Africa, and two radio telescopes in Western Australia, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the MeerKAT is one of four precursors to the final SKA.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MeerKAT” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.