what are you doing to help build the radio telescope? Also what will you be able to see through it?

Question: what are you doing to help build the radio telescope? Also what will you be able to see through it?
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  radio,
  routine,
  telescope
Asked by tad to Anna on 17 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by 522bdta32.
- Anna Scaife answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  Hey Tad – I’m designing the software that will take the raw data from the radio antennas and use it to produce images. For a radio telescope this is more complicated than, for example, an optical telescope. In this case it’s even more difficult because the telescope will be so big and we’ll have to process a lot of data (1 TB/sec) really quickly.
  
  You can see all kinds of exciting things with a radio telescope. Personally, I’ll be looking for radio emission that appears when two galaxy clusters collide with each other. This is the most energetic type of event in the Universe and we should be able to see huge shock waves (bigger than galaxies) around the collision.

Question: what are you doing to help build the radio telescope? Also what will you be able to see through it?