July 4th, 2022 – Dean of Science Professor Tony Booth officially launched the Rhodes University Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) at the Waainek (Makhanda) site last week.
The building and deployment of a TART at Rhodes University is a collaborative effort between Rhodes University, the University of Otago, and Stellenbosch University.
The TART design for a highly low-cost, open-source 24-element radio interferometer was initially developed by Dr Tim Molteno and his group at the University of Otago to provide a test-bed for developing and testing state-of-the-art calibration and imaging algorithms for radio astronomy.
