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most citedThe MeerKAT Telescope as a Pulsar Facility: System verification and early science results from MeerTime

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey

S. Goedhart, W. D. Cotton, F. Camilo +127

We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane (251° 358°and 2° 61°at $|b| \le 1.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 137 cited

The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic

I. Heywood, I. Rammala, F. Camilo +108

The inner 200 pc region of the Galaxy contains a 4 million M supermassive black hole (SMBH), significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 130 cited

The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights

K. Knowles, W. D. Cotton, L. Rudnick +148

MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

A MeerKAT view of pre-processing in the Fornax A group

D. Kleiner, P. Serra, F. M. Maccagni +18

We present MeerKAT neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the Fornax A group, that is likely falling into the Fornax cluster for the first time. Our HI image is sensitive to 1.4 x 1…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

Anomalous gas in ESO 149-G003: A MeerKAT-16 View

Gyula I. G. Józsa, Kshitij Thorat, Peter Kamphuis +28

ESO 149-G003 is a close-by, isolated dwarf irregular galaxy. Previous observations with the ATCA indicated the presence of anomalous neutral hydrogen (HI) deviating from the kinema…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

Blind HI and OH absorption line search: first results with MALS and uGMRT processed using ARTIP

N. Gupta, P. Jagannathan, R. Srianand +32

We present details of the Automated Radio Telescope Imaging Pipeline (ARTIP) and results of a sensitive blind search for HI and OH absorbers at and , respectively. A…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 178 cited

The MeerKAT Telescope as a Pulsar Facility: System verification and early science results from MeerTime

M. Bailes, A. Jameson, F. Abbate +72

We describe system verification tests and early science results from the pulsar processor (PTUSE) developed for the newly-commissioned 64-dish SARAO MeerKAT radio telescope in Sout…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 150 cited

Inflation of 430-parsec bipolar radio bubbles in the Galactic Centre by an energetic event

I. Heywood, F. Camilo, W. D. Cotton +96

The Galactic Centre contains a supermassive black hole with a mass of 4 million suns within an environment that differs markedly from that of the Galactic disk. While the black hol…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

Early Observations of the MHONGOOSE Galaxies: Getting Ready for MeerKAT

A. Sorgho, C. Carignan, D. J. Pisano +9

We present early observations of 20 galaxies in the MHONGOOSE survey galaxies using KAT-7, the GBT, and MeerKAT. We present the best calibrators for five of the MHONGOOSE galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

HI observations of Sextans A and B with the SKA pathfinder KAT-7

Brenda Namumba, Claude Carignan, Sean Passmoor

HI observations of the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxies Sextans A and B, obtained with the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) are presented. The KAT-7 wide field of view and excelle…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 161 cited

Revival of the magnetar PSR J1622-4950: observations with MeerKAT, Parkes, XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR

F. Camilo, P. Scholz, M. Serylak +205

New radio (MeerKAT and Parkes) and X-ray (XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR) observations of PSR J1622-4950 indicate that the magnetar, in a quiescent state since at least ear…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

HI Kinematics, Mass Distribution, and Star Formation Threshold in NGC 6822, using the SKA pathfinder KAT-7

Brenda Namumba, Claude Carignan, Sean Passmoor +1

We present high sensitivity HI observations of NGC 6822, obtained with the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7). We study the kinematics, the mass distribution, and the star formation thr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

HI in Group Interactions: HCG 44

Kelley M. Hess, M. E. Cluver, Sahba Yahya +5

Extending deep observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) to the environment around galaxy groups can reveal a complex history of group interactions which is invisible to stu…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 37 cited

Engineering and Science Highlights of the KAT-7 Radio Telescope

A. R. Foley, T. Alberts, R P. Armstrong +100

The construction of the KAT-7 array in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape in South Africa was intended primarily as an engineering prototype for technologies and techniques appl…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

KAT-7 Science Verification: Cold Gas, Star Formation, and Substructure in the Nearby Antlia Cluster

Kelley M. Hess, T. H. Jarrett, Claude Carignan +2

The Antlia Cluster is a nearby, dynamically young structure, and its proximity provides a valuable opportunity for detailed study of galaxy and group accretion onto clusters. We pr…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 4 cited

Probing the bias of radio sources at high redshift

Sean Passmoor, Catherine Cress, Andreas Faltenbacher +4

The relationship between the clustering of dark matter and that of luminous matter is often described using the bias parameter. Here, we provide a new method to probe the bias of i…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 1 cited

Clustering of HI galaxies in HIPASS and ALFALFA

S. S. Passmoor, C. M. Cress, A. Faltenbacher

We investigate the clustering of HI-selected galaxies in the ALFALFA survey and compare results with those obtained for HIPASS. Measurements of the angular correlation function and…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 3 cited

The velocity--shape alignment of clusters and the kinetic Sunyaev--Zeldovich effect

D. Cunnama, A. Faltenbacher, C. Cress +1

We use the Millennium simulation to probe the correlation between cluster velocities and their shapes and the consequences for measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) e…