The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2021 at "Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific"
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/abf329
Abstract: New radio telescope arrays offer unique opportunities for large-scale commensal SETI surveys. Ethernet-based architectures are allowing multiple users to access telescope data simultaneously by means of multicast Ethernet subscriptions. Breakthrough Listen will take advantage of… read more here.
Keywords: breakthrough listen; listen search; telescope; search intelligent ... See more keywords
The extended H i halo of NGC 4945 as seen by MeerKAT
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2022 at "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society"
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac936
Abstract: Observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) in the nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 4945 with MeerKAT are presented. We find a large amount of halo gas, previously missed by H i observations, accounting for 6.8% of the… read more here.
Keywords: meerkat; ngc 4945; extended halo; galaxy ... See more keywords
MeerKAT caught a Mini Mouse: serendipitous detection of a young radio pulsar escaping its birth site
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2023 at "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society"
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1438
Abstract: In MeerKAT observations pointed at a Galactic X-ray binary located on the Galactic plane we serendipitously discovered a radio nebula with cometary-like morphology. The feature, which we named ‘the Mini Mouse’ based on its similarity… read more here.
Keywords: mini mouse; radio pulsar; age; meerkat ... See more keywords
Revealing hidden structures in the Zone of Avoidance – a blind MeerKAT H i Survey of the Vela Supercluster
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2024 at "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society"
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2552
Abstract: We conducted the MeerKAT Vela Supercluster survey, named Vela−$\rm {H}\, \scriptstyle \mathrm{I}$, to bridge the gap between the Vela SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (Vela−SMGPS, −2○ ≤ b ≤ 1○), and optical and near-infrared spectroscopic… read more here.
Keywords: meerkat; survey; scriptstyle mathrm; vela supercluster ... See more keywords
Mining the time axis with TRON. II. MeerKAT detects a stellar radio flare from a distant RS CVn candidate
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2025 at "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters"
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaf015
Abstract: Medium-timescale (minutes to hours) radio transients are a relatively unexplored population. The wide field-of-view and high instantaneous sensitivity of instruments such as MeerKAT provides an opportunity to probe this class of sources, using image-plane detection… read more here.
Keywords: meerkat; mining time; radio flare; cvn ... See more keywords