French SKA White Book - The French Community towards the Square Kilometre Array
Abstract
The "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA) is a large international radio telescope project characterised, as suggested by its name, by a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre, and consisting of several interferometric arrays to observe at metric and centimetric wavelengths. The deployment of the SKA will take place in two sites, in South Africa and Australia, and in two successive phases. From its Phase 1, the SKA will be one of the most formidable scientific machines ever deployed by mankind, and by far the most impressive in terms of data throughput and required computing power. With the participation of almost 200 authors from forty research institutes and six private companies, the publication of this French SKA white paper illustrates the strong involvement in the SKA project of the French astronomical community and of a rapidly growing number of major scientific and technological players in the fields of Big Data, high performance computing, energy production and storage, as well as system integration.
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@article{arxiv.1712.06950,
title = {French SKA White Book - The French Community towards the Square Kilometre Array},
author = {F. Acero and J. -T. Acquaviva and R. Adam and N. Aghanim and M. Allen and M. Alves and R. Ammanouil and R. Ansari and A. Araudo and E. Armengaud and B. Ascaso and E. Athanassoula and D. Aubert and S. Babak and A. Bacmann and A. Banday and K. Barriere and F. Bellossi and J. -P. Bernard and M. G. Bernardini and M. Béthermin and E. Blanc and L. Blanchet and J. Bobin and S. Boissier and C. Boisson and A. Boselli and A. Bosma and S. Bosse and S. Bottinelli and F. Boulanger and R. Boyer and A. Bracco and C. Briand and M. Bucher and V. Buat and L. Cambresy and M. Caillat and J. -M. Casandjian and E. Caux and S. Célestin and M. Cerruti and P. Charlot and E. Chassande-Mottin and S. Chaty and N. Christensen and L. Ciesla and N. Clerc and J. Cohen-Tanugi and I. Cognard and F. Combes and B. Comis and S. Corbel and B. Cordier and M. Coriat and R. Courtin and H. Courtois and B. Da Silva and E. Daddi and R. Dallier and E. Dartois and K. Demyk and J. -M. Denis and L. Denis and A. Djannati-Ataï and J. -F. Donati and M. Douspis and W. van Driel and M. N. El Korso and E. Falgarone and A. Fantina and T. Farges and A. Ferrari and C. Ferrari and K. Ferrière and R. Flamary and N. Gac and S. Gauffre and F. Genova and J. Girard and I. Grenier and J. -M. Griessmeier and P. Guillard and L. Guillemot and F. Gulminelli and A. Gusdorf and E. Habart and F. Hammer and P. Hennebelle and F. Herpin and O. Hervet and A. Hughes and O. Ilbert and M. Janvier and E. Josselin and A. Julier and C. Lachaud and G. Lagache and R. Lallement and S. Lambert and L. Lamy and M. Langer and P. Larzabal and G. Lavaux and T. Le Bertre and O. Le Fèvre and A. Le Tiec and B. Lefloch and M. Lehnert and M. Lemoine-Goumard and F. Levrier and M. Limousin and D. Lis and A. López-Sepulcre and J. Macias-Perez and C. Magneville and A. Marcowith and J. Margueron and G. Marquette and D. Marshall and L. Martin and D. Mary and S. Masson and S. Maurogordato and C. Mazauric and Y. Mellier and M. -A. Miville-Deschênes and L. Montier and F. Mottez and D. Mourard and N. Nesvadba and J. -F. Nezan and P. Noterdaeme and J. Novak and P. Ocvirk and M. Oertel and X. Olive and V. Ollier and N. Palanque-Delabrouille and M. Pandey-Pommier and Y. Pennec and M. Pérault and C. Peroux and P. Petit and J. Pétri and A. Petiteau and J. Pety and G. W. Pratt and M. Puech and B. Quertier and E. Raffin and S. Rakotozafy Harison and S. Rawson and M. Renaud and B. Revenu and C. Richard and J. Richard and F. Rincon and I. Ristorcelli and J. Rodriguez and M. Schultheis and C. Schimd and B. Semelin and H. Sol and J. -L. Starck and M. Tagger and C. Tasse and G. Theureau and S. Torchinsky and C. Vastel and S. D. Vergani and L. Verstraete and X. Vigouroux and N. Vilmer and J. -P. Vilotte and N. Webb and N. Ysard and P. Zarka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06950},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Editor in chief: C. Ferrari; Editors: M. Alves, S. Bosse, S. Corbel, A. Ferrari, K. Ferri\`ere, S. Gauffre, E. Josselin, G. Lagache, S. Lambert, G. Marquette, J.-M. Martin, M.-A. Miville-Desch\^enes, L. Montier, B. Semelin, G. Theureau, S. Vergani, N. Vilmer, P. Zarka; Original file with high resolution figures at SKA-France link: https://ska-france.oca.eu/images/SKA-France-Media/FWB_051017.pdf