2024-11-14 –, Aula Magna
The MeerKAT radio telescope has been producing high-quality scientific data for more than six years. Its Science Data Processor (SDP) subsystem produces signal displays, calibration products, continuum images and spectral cubes in a fully automated and pipelined fashion from the outputs of the correlator and tied-array beamformer. I review the major parts of the MeerKAT SDP pipeline with a focus on the software architecture, design choices and lessons learnt.
Ludwig has been with the MeerKAT radio telescope since the early days, focussing on software for calibration, imaging, coordinates and data access. His background is electronic engineering and statistics. He is also a relapsed machine learner.