Speaker
Ms
Kerry Paterson
(UCT)
Description
MeerLICHT is a 65cm optical telescope situated in Sutherland. The MeerLICHT project, as a part of the ThunderKAT project, will be linked to MeerKAT in real-time, in order to provide simultaneous optical and radio observations of the transient sky. Since transient events often requires multi-wavelength observations within a short time lapse, the combination of MeerLICHT and MeerKAT will provide invaluable information on emission at both wavelengths, including the relation and evolution of emission from both wavelength windows.
After the installation and commissioning of MeerLICHT in May-June 2017, early science on MeerLICHT has begun. This, along with testing the link between MeerLICHT and MeerKAT, will continue until MeerKAT is completed and released for science.
In this talk, I will present an overview of the MeerLICHT and ThunderKAT projects as a whole, an overview of the MeerLICHT pipeline, early science results obtained with MeerLICHT, as well as the timeline and future works of the projects.
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Prof. Patrick Woudt: pwoudt@ast.uct.ac.za
UCT
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
PhD
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
Yes
Primary author
Ms
Kerry Paterson
(UCT)
Co-authors
Prof.
Brian Warner
(UCT)
Prof.
Patrick Woudt
(Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town)
Prof.
Paul Groot
(Radboud University)
Dr
Paul Vreeswijk
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
Dr
Steven Bloemen
(Radboud University)
Dr
Vanessa McBride
(University of Cape Town & SAAO)
