LRP 2020 Whitepaper: The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD)
/ Authors
K. Vanderlinde, Adrian Liu, Bryan Gaensler, D. Bond, G. Hinshaw, C. Ng, C. Chiang, I. Stairs, Jo-Anne C. Brown, J. Sievers
and 13 more authors
J. Mena, Kendrick M. Smith, K. Bandura, K. Masui, K. Spekkens, L. Belostotski, M. Dobbs, N. Turok, P. Boyle, M. Rupen, T. Landecker, U. Pen, V. Kaspi
/ Abstract
The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD) is a next-generation radio telescope, proposed for construction to start immediately. CHORD is a pan-Canadian project, designed to work with and build on the success of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). It is an ultra-wideband, "large-N, small-D" telescope, consisting of a central array of 512x6-m dishes, supported by a pair of distant outrigger stations, each equipped with CHIME-like cylinders and a 64-dish array. CHORD will measure the distribution of matter over a huge swath of the Universe, detect and localize tens of thousands of Fast RadioBursts (FRBs), and undertake cutting-edge measurements of fundamental physics.
Journal: arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics