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The development and installation of the most powerful digital instrumentation ever deployed in such a search has kept the Breakthrough Listen team occupied for the past three years. MeerKAT will join several other telescopes already involved with the project, including theUnlike those other telescopes, however, MeerKAT won't mechanically move to look at targets all over the sky, because its field of view is already wide enough to encompass a large area containing plenty of stellar targets.
"MeerKAT consists of 64 dishes, which can see an area of the sky 50 times bigger than the GBT can view at once," Breakthrough Listen principal investigator Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, said in a."Such a large field of view typically contains many stars that are interesting technosignature targets.
By operating the telescope in the background in this way, Breakthrough Listen researchers will have access to MeerKAT's radio telescopes for almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MeerKAT can scan 64 targets at one time in its main field of view, which means the telescope will help to eliminate signals originating from human-created technology, like satellites orbiting
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