Speaker
Siyambonga Matshawule
(University of the Western Cape)
Description
A neutral hydrogen intensity mapping survey with the MeerKAT radio-telescope set in South Africa offers a great opportunity to study the composition and evolution of our universe. Measuring this small signal is a challenging task due to the many systematics from the instrument.
In this talk, I will discuss the impact of the telescope primary beam on the contamination of the data using realistic simulations of the observation pipeline. Results from this work are guiding researchers in developing methods to measure the cosmological signal with MeerKAT and future SKAO telescope.
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Primary author
Siyambonga Matshawule
(University of the Western Cape)
Co-authors
Dr
Marta Spinelli
(Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange)
Prof.
Mario Santos
(University of the Western Cape)