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The MeerKAT Karoo Array Telescope and its HI Emission Line Surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

W. J. G. de Blok
W. J. G. de Blok*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, ACGC, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa email: edeblok@ast.uct.ac.za
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Abstract

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This contribution gives a short overview of the MeerKAT Karoo Array Telescope, the South African Square Kilometre Array Precursor. Some of the key specification and HI emission line science for MeerKAT are described.

Keywords

instrumentation: interferometersradio lines:galaxies
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 96 - 99
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011