TART project 2022 highlights
The TART project has had a lot to celebrate in 2022. What follows is a brief summary of events that took place.
Team Expansion
We've had a good deal of expansion. The TART project has three teams
- Rhodes: Sonia, Ben, Rickus*, Stanley, Oleg, Patrice
- SARAO: Ben, Oleg, Ruby, Nadeem
- Stellenbosch: Rikus, Danie
- New Zealand: Tim, Phill, Max
Rickus (*) gets honourary membership of the Rhodes team for driving from Stellenbosch to Rhodes to help with the installation.
TART-3 Updates
The NZ team has been hard at work on TART-3. Progress is now accelerating as the radio module is now in early testing.
| TART-3 Radio Module | Features |
|---|---|
 | Two radios per module, PCI-e connector, Easy to replace modules |
Rhodes TART comissioning
Gained coverage in the media thanks to excellent organizing by the Rhodes team (Sonia, Rickus (hon), Stanley, Oleg, Patrice). This telescope was a 3-arm interferometer with a new design that allows easy reconfiguration.
| The Rhodes student team | Dignitaries |
|---|---|
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Establishing a new Github home
We began the process of moving the github repositories to a new home (https://github.com/tart-telescope). This also involves breaking up the huge monolithic TART repository in to smaller and more managable repositories.
Documentation Updates
- New jupyter notebooks by Ruby (tart notebooks) these notebooks are going to be used in the inaugural TART workshop held at Rhodes.
- A new website based on Docosaurus (here)
Measurement Set updates
Huge work by Ben Hugo on making the TART measurement set tools tart2ms. These have allowed some fantastic features:
- Rephasing of observations into a single measurement set.
- Incorporation of Catalogue in JSON into the measurement set.
- This allows potentially much more sensitive imaging!
CASA calibration
| Rhodes Calibration with CASA | Cal phase vs time |
|---|---|
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TART workshops progress
Three TART workshops are now in various stages of preparation.
- Jan 16-17: Breakthrough listen @ Rhodes (Stanley, Ben, Oleg)
- Mid 2023: Gabon (Patrice)
- Mid 2023: Ghana (Stanley)
TART talks, mentions in media e.t.c
- Rhodes opening... (see above)
- Sonia: gave a talk to the RATT group
- Patrice: presented to African Astronomical Society (August?)
- Stanley & Tim: Talk in Kenya (8/12/22)