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An S-band Receiver and Backend System for MeerKAT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Ewan D. Barr*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The MPIfR is working together with SKA-SA and the Universities of Manchester and Oxford to deploy three instruments on MeerKAT: An S-band receiver system, a dedicated beamforming cluster and a flexible pulsar search cluster. Together these instruments will provide MeerKAT with powerful tools for supporting a wide range of scientific applications and in particular will enable large-scale pulsar and fast transient surveys to be performed. In these proceedings we describe the design, implementation and deployment timeline for these instruments.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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