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.

13 videos found

MeerKAT Observation Planning Tool

This is a tutorial guide on how to use the MeerKAT Observation Planning Tool (OPT) when planning for or submitting your MeerKAT observation.

Interferometric Imaging I, II and III

In this presentation we formalise the relationship between the visibility space of the interferometer and the sky brightness distribution.

Pulsar astronomy and data analysis using MeerKAT

In this talk you will learn about fast spinning neutron stars, called pulsars, that emit beamed radio emission like clockwork.

Interferometric calibration

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.

Antenna based calibration

Calibration of recorded telescope data to obtain its true science representation starts by identifying and removing instrumental effects from your data.

Introduction to flagging

Removing unwanted data from your observations before science processing is one of the most important steps in radio astronomy data analysis.

Radio astronomy and the Fourier transform

The Fourier transform plays a fundamental role in all aspects of radio astronomy.

Introduction to radio telescopes

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.