Speaker
Danny Price
(ICRAR/Curtin)
Description
The MWA, like many radio array telecopes, uses Ethernet packets to route data from the receiver 'frontend' to the MWAX correlator 'backend'. Using a routing feature called Multicast, these data packets can be sent to any backends that request a copy of the datastream. Here, we report on the commensal MWA beamformer system: a collaboration between ICRAR researchers and the Breakthrough Listen search for life beyond Earth. The commensal system is being used to undertake a technosignature search (SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). We will give an overview of how the system works, current status, and future plans.
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Primary authors
Andrew Williams
(MWA Telescope)
Danny Price
(ICRAR/Curtin)
Greg Sleap
(Curtin University/Murchison Widefield Array)
Dr
Ian Morrison
(CIRA)
Mr
Luke Williams
(CIRA)
Marcin Sokolowski
(Curtin University)
