MeerKAT Fornax Survey
Image credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: Aniello Grado and Luca Limatola
goals & design
goals & design
We use the MeerKAT telescope to observe neutral hydrogen and radio continuum in the nearby cluster of galaxies Fornax. We want to study how galaxies in Fornax interact with one another and with the intra-cluster medium, and reveal their connection with gas in the cosmic web.
team
team
The team is lead by Paolo Serra (INAF - Cagliari) and includes 26 researchers at about a dozen institutes
data
data
Download our MeerKAT science data products or find the links to other multi-wavelength datasets
pretty pictures
pretty pictures
Download some pretty images of Fornax galaxies obtained by us and our collaborators
related FORNAX projects
related FORNAX projects
Our team is involved in a number of projects aimed at studying Fornax at other wavelengths
software
software
We contribute to the development of software for radio astronomy data reduction and analysis