Fundamental Physics with the Square Kilometre Array
Abstract
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity and survey speed than any current radio telescope. The SKA will address many important topics in astronomy, ranging from planet formation to distant galaxies. However, in this work, we consider the perspective of the SKA as a facility for studying physics. We review four areas in which the SKA is expected to make major contributions to our understanding of fundamental physics: cosmic dawn and reionisation; gravity and gravitational radiation; cosmology and dark energy; and dark matter and astroparticle physics. These discussions demonstrate that the SKA will be a spectacular physics machine, which will provide many new breakthroughs and novel insights on matter, energy and spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.02680,
title = {Fundamental Physics with the Square Kilometre Array},
author = {A. Weltman and P. Bull and S. Camera and K. Kelley and H. Padmanabhan and J. Pritchard and A. Raccanelli and S. Riemer-Sørensen and L. Shao and S. Andrianomena and E. Athanassoula and D. Bacon and R. Barkana and G. Bertone and C. Bonvin and A. Bosma and M. Brüggen and C. Burigana and C. Bœhm and F. Calore and J. A. R. Cembranos and C. Clarkson and R. M. T. Connors and Á. de la Cruz-Dombriz and P. K. S. Dunsby and J. Fonseca and N. Fornengo and D. Gaggero and I. Harrison and J. Larena and Y. -Z. Ma and R. Maartens and M. Méndez-Isla and S. D. Mohanty and S. G. Murray and D. Parkinson and A. Pourtsidou and P. J. Quinn and M. Regis and P. Saha and M. Sahlén and M. Sakellariadou and J. Silk and T. Trombetti and F. Vazza and T. Venumadhav and F. Vidotto and F. Villaescusa-Navarro and Y. Wang and C. Weniger and L. Wolz and F. Zhang and B. M. Gaensler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02680},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
69 pages, PASA, in press