20–27 Mar 2026
Wild View Resorts
Africa/Gaborone timezone

Exploration of Exploration of Radio Sources with Diverse Flux Range Detected in MeerKAT Galaxy Proto-Cluster Fields

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20m
Wild View Resorts

Wild View Resorts

Plot 80 President Avenue, Kasane, Botswana
Online - Poster Presentation 10 S&E poster Science & Engineering

Speaker

Khumbelo Muthaledi

Description

Abstract
The Square Kilometre Array, the world largest radio telescope on Earth, is being built in South Africa and Australia, with the mid and low frequency arrays of this telescope being built in these respective countries. South Africa has already built the precursor instrument called MeerKAT, in preparation for this, offering unprecedented sensitivity and resolution at the L-band frequency. We have some of the first reduced data from this telescope, that were originally proposed and competitively awarded time with the telescope to study candidates of proto-clusters (Ding, Clements, Leeuw et al. 2024). This paper will study some of the auxiliary detections made in those observations, which are estimated to constitute more than 5000 radio sources in each of the three fields that were observed. The goal of the project will be to explore selected sources with a diverse flux range to characterize and analyze them in search of any special characteristics of the sources as representatives of the broad sources in the field.

Stream Science or Engineering

Primary authors

Khumbelo Muthaledi Mr Nhlanhla Mthimkulu Ms Sinenhlanhla Ntshangase Mr Sekhona Tole

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