Wide field Beamformed Observation with MeerKAT

IF 1.5 Q3 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1142/S2251171721500136

Weiwei Chen, E. Barr, R. Karuppusamy, Michael Kramer, B. Stappers

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Large-scale beamforming with radio interferometers has the potential to revolutionize the science done with pulsars and fast radio bursts by improving the survey eﬃciency for these sources. We describe a wide-ﬁeld beamformer for the MeerKAT radio telescope and outline strategies to optimally design such surveys. A software implementation of these techniques, Mosaic is introduced and its application in the MeerKAT telescope is presented. We show initial results using the beamformer by observing a globular cluster to track several pulsars simultaneously and demonstrate the source localization capability of this observation.

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MeerKAT的宽视场波束形成观测

通过提高对脉冲星和快速射电暴的调查效率，无线电干涉仪的大规模波束形成有可能彻底改变脉冲星和快速射电暴的科学研究。我们描述了一种用于MeerKAT射电望远镜的宽视场波束形成器，并概述了优化设计此类调查的策略。介绍了这些技术的软件实现Mosaic，并介绍了Mosaic在MeerKAT望远镜中的应用。我们展示了通过观测球状星团同时跟踪几颗脉冲星的波束形成器的初步结果，并展示了这种观测的源定位能力。

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Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

7.70%

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