Overview

ThunderKAT as a MeerKAT Large Survey Project: established in October 2010 following a call for proposals

ThunderKAT on KAT-7: 2013 - 2014

MeerKAT inauguration: 13 July 2018

• Click this link for the MeerKAT first light image, released at the inauguration in July 2018.

ThunderKAT science operations on MeerKAT: August 2018 - September 2023

Selected ThunderKAT highlights:

• First ThunderKAT Astronomer's Telegram: September 2018
  • MeerKAT detection of H1743-322 at 1.3 GHz, Astronomer's Telegram 12046
• First ThunderKAT paper (published): October 2019
  • Disk-jet coupling in the 2017/2018 outburst of the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571, Astrophysical Journal 883, 198
• First new radio transient discovered by ThunderKAT (published): January 2020 
  • MKT J170456.2-482100: the first transient discovered by MeerKAT, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 491, 560