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The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low frequency radio interferometer designed and developed by an international consortium, operated on behalf of the consortium by Curtin University. The MWA is a Precursor for the low frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Steven J. Tingay

We give an overview of complementarity and synergy in cosmology between the Square Kilometre Array and future survey projects in other wavelengths. In the SKA era, precision cosmology will be limited by systematic errors and cosmic…

We present the Meerkat Asteroid Guard, an imminent impactor warning service developed and maintained by the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC). The software uses the method of systematic ranging to perform…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) can advance scientific frontiers beyond its groundbreaking 10-year survey. Here we explore opportunities for extended operations with proposal-based observing strategies, new filters, or…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) provides an excellent opportunity for low cost searches for fast radio transients. The increased sensitivity and field of view of the SKA compared with other radio telescopes will make it an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Colegate , N. Clarke

SKA is a new technology radio-telescope array, about two orders of magnitude more sensitive and rapid in sky surveys than present instruments. It will probe the dark age of the universe, just afer recombination, and during the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Francoise Combes

A new, meter-wave radio telescope has been built in the North-East of Mauritius, an island in the Indian ocean, at a latitude of -20.14 deg. The Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) is a Fourier Synthesis T-shaped array, consisting of a 2048 m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Golap , N. Udaya Shankar , S. Sachdev , R. Dodson , Ch. V. Sastry

We present the results from studying 140 radio sources in the GLEAM (GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA [Murchison Widefield Array]) 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample. These sources were followed-up with MeerKAT to assess their radio morphology and…

This white paper gives a brief summary of the time domain science that has been performed with the JCMT in recent years and highlights the opportunities for continuing work in this field over the next decade. The main focus of this document…

The U.S. Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT) project aims at a highly accurate (5 mas), ground-based, all-sky survey. Requirements are presented for the optics and telescope for this 0.85 m aperture, 4.5 degree diameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Zacharias , U. Laux , A. Rakich , H. Epps

The SKA will be transformational for many areas of science, but in particular for the study of neutron stars and their usage as tools for fundamental physics in the form of radio pulsars. Since the last science case for the SKA, numerous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 Michael Kramer , Ben Stappers

We describe here an ongoing upgrade to the legacy Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT).The ORT is a cylindrical parabolic cylinder 530mx30m in size operating at a frequency of 326.5 (or z ~ 3.35 for the HI 21cm line). The telescope has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 C. R. Subrahmanya , P. K. Manoharan , Jayaram. N. Chengalur

I highlight the synergies of the Wide Field X-ray Telescope (WFXT) with the next generation radio surveys, including those to be obtained with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and the Square Kilometre Array, and discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 P. Padovani

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Weiwei Chen , Ewan Barr , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Michael Kramer , Benjamin Stappers

Radio holographic measurements using the MeerKAT telescope are presented for each of its supported observing bands, namely UHF (544--1087 MHz), L (856--1711 MHz) and S (1750--3499 MHz). Because the UHF-band receiver design is a scaled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Mattieu de Villiers

The Zadko Telescope is a 1 m f/4 Cassegrain telescope, situated in the state of Western Australia about 80 km north of Perth. The facility plays a niche role in Australian astronomy, as it is the only meter class facility in Australia…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 D. M. Coward , B. Gendre , P. Tanga , D. Turpin , J. Zadko , R. Dodson , M. Devogéle , E. J. Howell , J. A. Kennewell , M. Boër , A. Klotz , D. Dornic , J. A. Moore , A. Heary

In order to deliver the full science potential of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope, several SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) will be required to be constructed in different SKA member countries around the world. These SRCs will provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yogesh Wadadekar , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Abhirup Datta , Surajit Paul , Divya Oberoi

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a radio interferometer array currently in development, with an initial 256-element array to be deployed at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Devin Crichton , Moumita Aich , Adam Amara , Kevin Bandura , Bruce A. Bassett , Carlos Bengaly , Pascale Berner , Shruti Bhatporia , Martin Bucher , Tzu-Ching Chang , H. Cynthia Chiang , Jean-Francois Cliche , Carolyn Crichton , Romeel Dave , Dirk I. L. de Villiers , Matt A. Dobbs , Aaron M. Ewall-Wice , Scott Eyono , Christopher Finlay , Sindhu Gaddam , Ken Ganga , Kevin G. Gayley , Kit Gerodias , Tim Gibbon , Austin Gumba , Neeraj Gupta , Maile Harris , Heiko Heilgendorf , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Pascal Hitz , Mona Jalilvand , Roufurd Julie , Zahra Kader , Joseph Kania , Dionysios Karagiannis , Aris Karastergiou , Kabelo Kesebonye , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Jean-Paul Kneib , Kenda Knowles , Emily R. Kuhn , Martin Kunz , Roy Maartens , Vincent MacKay , Stuart MacPherson , Christian Monstein , Kavilan Moodley , V. Mugundhan , Warren Naidoo , Arun Naidu , Laura B. Newburgh , Viraj Nistane , Amanda Di Nitto , Deniz Ölçek , Xinyu Pan , Sourabh Paul , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Elizabeth Pieters , Carla Pieterse , Aritha Pillay , Anna R. Polish , Liantsoa Randrianjanahary , Alexandre Refregier , Andre Renard , Edwin Retana-Montenegro , Ian H. Rout , Cyndie Russeeawon , Alireza Vafaei Sadr , Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik , Ajith Sampath , Pranav Sanghavi , Mario G. Santos , Onkabetse Sengate , J. Richard Shaw , Jonathan L. Sievers , Oleg M. Smirnov , Kendrick M. Smith , Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob , Raghunathan Srianand , Pieter Stronkhorst , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Simon Tartakovsky , Russ Taylor , Peter Timbie , Emma E. Tolley , Junaid Townsend , Will Tyndall , Cornelius Ungerer , Jacques van Dyk , Gary van Vuuren , Keith Vanderlinde , Thierry Viant , Anthony Walters , Jingying Wang , Amanda Weltman , Patrick Woudt , Dallas Wulf , Anatoly Zavyalov , Zheng Zhang

In this article, I will present some figures and milestones of the written production of the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR), as well as a personal review of the scientific achievements carried out in recent years by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Paula Benaglia

The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large…