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Table 1.

MeerKAT observations and data products.

Date 2 June 2018
Observation ID 1527936442
Pointing centre (J2000) RA 03h 22m 417
Dec −37d 12m 30s
Total frequency range 856–1712 MHz
Processed frequency range 1381–1500 MHz
Channel width 209 kHz
44.5 km s−1 for H I at z = 0
Number of antennas 36
Bandpass/flux calibrator PKS 1934-638
Gain calibrator PKS 0332-403
Time on target 8 h
H I cube weighting Briggs robust= 0.5
20″ tapering
H I cube r.m.s. noise 0.19 mJy beam−1 (cube centre)
H I restoring PSF 36.7″ × 28.1″ FWHM
PA = 109 deg
3σ H I column density 2.7 × 1019 cm−2
(cube centre, single channel)
Primary beam (FWHM) 0.9 deg at 1.4 GHz

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