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

Impact of Kutunse radio telescope on Maser monitoring efforts

Not scheduled
20m
Wild View Resorts

Wild View Resorts

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

Speaker

Fanie van den Heever (North West University)

Description

In 2017 at the Maser conference (IAU symposium 287) in Cagliari in Italy, several results were shown, in particular two results, one from single-dish monitoring and the other from ALMA, of the same source. This showed the importance of collaborative work, and right there the Maser Monitoring Organization was found. The M20 consists of 11/12 single-dish observatories that monitors Masers, and acts as an alert system to get time on bigger telescopes, such as ALMA, EVN, VLBA, etc. This talk will give insights to the benefits that Kutunse operations will bring to the M2O efforts as well as the impact that it will have on Astronomical VLBI once it is fully operational

Stream Science or Engineering

Primary author

Fanie van den Heever (North West University)

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