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This includes public releases of SARAO legacy surveys, calibrator images from the SARAO monitoring programme, and periodic some data releases from the large survey projects.
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LADUMA: Looking at the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array
MALS: The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey
MeerTime: The MeerKAT Key Science Project on Pulsar Timing
MHONGOOSE: MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects: Observing Southern Emitters
MIGHTEE: The MeerKAT International GHz Tuned Tiered Extragalactic Exploration Survey
ThunderKAT: The Hunt for Dynamic and Explosive Radio Transients with MeerKAT
TRAPUM: Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT
Following review, the Report of the MeerKAT Large Project Review Panel resulted in this rank-ordered list of approved LSPs and components:
LSP | Component |
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MeerTime | Binary |
MHONGOOSE | - |
MeerTime | MSP |
LADUMA | E-CDFS (L-band and UHF) |
Fornax | - |
TRAPUM | Fermi sources |
MeerTime | 1000 PTA |
ThunderKAT | CVs |
MIGHTEE | L-band (E-CDFS, XMM-LSS, ELAIS-S1, COSMOS) |
ThunderKAT | GRBs (short) |
MeerTime | Globular clusters |
MALS | UHF |
MALS | L-band |
TRAPUM | Nearby galaxies |
TRAPUM | Globular clusters |
TRAPUM | SNR, PWN, TeV |
ThunderKAT | SNe Ia |
MIGHTEE | S-band (E-CDFS, COSMOS) |
ThunderKAT | XRBs |
LSPs will be are being allocated up to 2/3 of the MeerKAT science time to be scheduled over a period of 5 years for projects selected competitively. As of mid-2024, two of the LSPs have already reached their 5-year terms, and as this happens gradually more observing time is allocated to Open Time projects.
No more LSP calls are envisioned at this stage.
Open Time
These projects will use have used up to approximately 28% of the observing time awarded through competitive proposalsprocesses during the first 5 years of MeerKAT operations. There will be periodic are yearly calls for Open Time proposals. The following projects were accepted for the previous open OT calls. Please click on the links for more details.
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This survey is a multi-wavelength campaign incorporating imaging, spectral line and time-domain (including pulsar search) modes commensally. The components of the survey are as follows:
Survey | Galactic longitude range (deg) | Galactic latitude range (deg) | Band | Dwell time (s) | Total duration (hr) |
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MMGPS-L | -100 < l < -10 | |b| < 5.2 | L | 600 | 800 |
MMGPS-S | -80 < l < 15 | |b| < 1.5 | S1 | 1257 | 1380 |
MMGPS-UHF | -62 < l < 15 | |b| < 11.0 | UHF | 505 | 400 |
MMGPS-Sgr A* | N/A | N/A | S4 | 14400 | 200 |
MMGPS-CH/HI/OH | N/A | N/A | L/S | 600/ 2400 | 55 |