The MeerKAT radio telescope is currently in full production in South Africa’s Karoo region, and by association, so is the Square Kilometre Array Phase 1 (SKA1) MID telescope. MeerKAT will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope array in the centimetre wavelength regime in the southern skies until the SKA1 MID telescope is operational, and is well on its way to realising the MeerKAT vision of being a world class instrument that exceeds its original specification. This paper identifies the key telescope specifications, discusses the high-level architecture and current progress to meet the specifications and lastly reports on lessons learnt in the process.
Oliver King, Charles Copley, Rod Davies, Richard Davis, Clive Dickinson, Yaser Hafez, Christian Holler, Jaya John John, Justin Jonas, Michael Jones, J. Patrick Leahy, Stephen Muchovej, Timothy Pearson, Anthony Readhead, Matthew Stevenson, Angela Taylor
The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS) aims to produce sensitive, all-sky maps of diffuse Galactic emission at
5 GHz in total intensity and linear polarization. These maps will be used (with other surveys) to separate the
several astrophysical components contributing to microwave emission, and in particular will allow an accurate
map of synchrotron emission to be produced for the subtraction of foregrounds from measurements of the
polarized Cosmic Microwave Background. We describe the design of the analog instrument, the optics of our
6.1 m dish at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, the status of observations, and first-look data.
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