collaborators

7 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

HI gas in the rejuvenated radio galaxy PKS 2014-55

Leon Mtshweni, Kshitij Thorat, Roger P. Deane +17

We present new high-spectral-resolution MeerKAT observations of absorption against the central region of the restarted, giant, X-shaped radio galaxy PKS2014-55, which…

astro-ph.IM2025

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

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

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,…