MeerKAT Student Community
Given the large MeerKAT community with students of all levels and interests, the MeerKAT student community presents a collection of lectures and training videos addressing all aspects of radio astronomy and the MeerKAT telescope.
In this presentation we formalise the relationship between the visibility space of the interferometer and the sky brightness distribution.
In this talk you will learn about fast spinning neutron stars, called pulsars, that emit beamed radio emission like clockwork.
In this presentation the transfer calibration process discussed in antenna based calibration is expanded. The strategy models and removes the various systematic problems which influence the propagation of the signal.
Calibration of recorded telescope data to obtain its true science representation starts by identifying and removing instrumental effects from your data.
Removing unwanted data from your observations before science processing is one of the most important steps in radio astronomy data analysis.
The Fourier transform plays a fundamental role in all aspects of radio astronomy.
The radio band is too wide to be covered effectively by a single telescope design, so a combination of single telescopes and aperture-synthesis interferometers are needed to detect and image radio astronomy sources.
Radio Astronomy has revealed a “parallel universe” of unexpected sources not previously seen.
This presentation hopes to assist students and newcomers with the process of writing their first scientific paper.
Observing proposals are an integral part of telescope operation and the life of any observational astronomer.