Kenya becomes one of the only three countries in Africa to install the Transient Array Radio Telescope.
So far it is only Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius that have managed to install the Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) on the continent of 55 countries.
The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is equipment that allows astronomers to study phenomena in real time.
A Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is essentially a low-cost open-source array radio telescope consisting of 24 all-sky GNSS receivers operating at the L1-band (1.575 GHz).
Transient Array Radio Telescope was designed as an all-sky survey instrument for detecting radio bursts, as well as providing a testbed for the development of new synthesis imaging and calibration algorithms.
All of the telescope hardware including radio receivers correlates and operating software are open source. A TART-2 radio-telescope can be built for approximately 1000 Euros, and the telescope antenna array requires 4m x 4m area for deployment.
The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is an aperture synthesis radio telescope; it uses 24 or 32 radio receivers to create images of the radio sky at 1.575 GHz.
The antennas look at the whole sky at once. Data from these receivers are correlated by the TART base station, and visibilities are generated in real time.
The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) operates in exactly the same way that large radio telescopes like the MeerKAT, SKA and VLA work, and provides an excellent platform for understanding, and developing new algorithms for radio astronomy.
It observes the entire sky continuously and is optimized to detect transient events, including satellites, near-earth objects and high-energy cosmic rays.
The telescope is also designed to serve as a platform for the development of new imaging algorithms.
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