Two telescopes are under construction, one in South Africa and one in Australia.
These installations will combine the signals received from thousands of small antennae spread over a distance of several thousand kilometres to simulate a single giant radio telescope capable of extremely high sensitivity and angular resolution, using a technique called aperture synthesis. Some of the sub-arrays of the SKA will also have a very large field-of-view (FOV), making it possible to survey very large areas of sky at once.
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Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars
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The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory invites all supervisors to submit Project Proposals for Postgraduate Research for 2025, Closing Date 29 February 2024.
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