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20162026
most citedMANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System

17 citations · 30 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Commensal image plane transient search methods with the SKAO

Alex Andersson, Dougal Dobbie, Natasha Hurley-Walker +7

This chapter outlines the key, state of the art, techniques required to conduct commensal image plane transient searches. Using significant experience and expertise from conducting…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Mining the time axis with TRON. I. Millisecond pulsars in Omega Centauri, Terzan 5 and 47 Tucanae detected through MeerKAT interferometric imaging

Oleg M. Smirnov, Ian Heywood, Marisa Geyer +13

Medium-timescale (minutes to hours) radio transients are a relatively unexplored population. The wide field-of-view and high instantaneous sensitivity of instruments such as MeerKA…

astro-ph.IM2025

Mining the time axis with TRON. II. MeerKAT detects a stellar radio flare from a distant RS CVn candidate

Oleg M. Smirnov, Aaron Golden, Talon Myburgh +14

Medium-timescale (minutes to hours) radio transients are a relatively unexplored population. The wide field-of-view and high instantaneous sensitivity of instruments such as MeerKA…

astro-ph.IM2024

Africanus I. Scalable, distributed and efficient radio data processing with Dask-MS and Codex Africanus

Simon J. Perkins, Jonathan S. Kenyon, Lexy A. L. Andati +3

New radio interferometers such as MeerKAT, SKA, ngVLA, and DSA-2000 drive advancements in software for two key reasons. First, handling the vast data from these instruments require…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Africanus IV. The Stimela2 framework: scalable and reproducible workflows, from local to cloud compute

Oleg M. Smirnov, Sphesihle Makhathini, Jonathan S. Kenyon +4

Stimela2 is a new-generation framework for developing data reduction workflows. It is designed for radio astronomy data but can be adapted for other data processing applications. S…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

Africanus III. pfb-imaging -- a flexible radio interferometric imaging suite

Hertzog L. Bester, Jonathan S. Kenyon, Audrey Repetti +8

The popularity of the CLEAN algorithm in radio interferometric imaging stems from its maturity, speed, and robustness. While many alternatives have been proposed in the literature,…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Africanus II. QuartiCal: calibrating radio interferometer data at scale using Numba and Dask

Jonathan S. Kenyon, Simon J. Perkins, Hertzog L. Bester +3

Calibration of radio interferometer data ought to be a solved problem; it has been an integral part of data reduction for some time. However, as larger, more sensitive radio interf…

astro-ph.IM2023

Lossy Compression of Large-Scale Radio Interferometric Data

M Atemkeng, S Perkins, E Seck +4

This work proposes to reduce visibility data volume using a baseline-dependent lossy compression technique that preserves smearing at the edges of the field-of-view. We exploit the…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 17 cited

MANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System

W. A. van Cappellen, M. Santos, J. P. Macquart +14

The objective of this paper is to present the main characteristics of a wide-field MFAA precursor that we envisage to be built at the SKA site in South Africa. Known as MANTIS (the…