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Eric Michaud edited this page Jun 18, 2018 · 1 revision

Welcome to the meerkat-backend-interface wiki!

At MeerKAT, we have a really fantastic opportunity to build software that saves us a ton of time. Since we will be observing (entirely?) commensally, and since we can "point" the telescope with digital interferometry, we can build a system that continuously observes targets without needing human input. From what I can gather, this breaks down into several components:

Software-Component Difficulty Status
Beam-Former / Interferometry 😡 0%
Automated Target Selection 😒 0%
Real-time candidate signal detection 😠 0%?
Metadata requests and logging 😕 0%
Manual target selection? ? 0%
Web interface to check telescope status? 😟 0%

But this repo is only for the "Metadata requests and logging" part... for now.

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