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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

  • MeerKAT Fornax 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

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)

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

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