RAZoom – The Transient Array Radio Telescope: An open-source aperture synthesis imaging radio telescope

Radio Astronomy Section meeting on Zoom, link by request from Paul Hearn [ paul@hearn.org.uk ]

The Transient Array Radio Telescope: An open-source aperture synthesis imaging radio telescope

Dr Tim Molteno is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Senior Research Associate, Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, South Africa, and Director of the Electronics Research Foundation.

He is an expert on Nonlinear Dynamics, Bayesian Inference, Measurement, Electronics, Signal Processing and Radio Astronomy Instrumentation. Twelve years ago he founded the Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) project. Tim has contributed code to many parts of the TART project, his recent contributions include tart-cargo, disko, tart2ms, spotless, the version 3 hardware for the correlator, motherboard and radio-board as well as the current calibration system.