Future Science Prospects for AMI
Abstract
The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a telescope specifically designed for high sensitivity measurements of low-surface-brightness features at cm-wavelength and has unique, important capabilities. It consists of two interferometer arrays operating over 13.5-18 GHz that image structures on scales of 0.5-10 arcmin with very low systematics. The Small Array (AMI-SA; ten 3.7-m antennas) couples very well to Sunyaev-Zel'dovich features from galaxy clusters and to many Galactic features. The Large Array (AMI-LA; eight 13-m antennas) has a collecting area ten times that of the AMI-SA and longer baselines, crucially allowing the removal of the effects of confusing radio point sources from regions of low surface-brightness, extended emission. Moreover AMI provides fast, deep object surveying and allows monitoring of large numbers of objects. In this White Paper we review the new science - both Galactic and extragalactic - already achieved with AMI and outline the prospects for much more.
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@article{arxiv.1208.1966,
title = {Future Science Prospects for AMI},
author = {Keith Grainge and Paul Alexander and Richard Battye and Mark Birkinshaw and Andrew Blain and Malcolm Bremer and Sarah Bridle and Michael Brown and Richard Davis and Clive Dickinson and Alastair Edge and George Efstathiou and Robert Fender and Martin Hardcastle and Jennifer Hatchell and Michael Hobson and Matthew Jarvis and Benjamin Maughan and Ian McHardy and Matthew Middleton and Anthony Lasenby and Richard Saunders and Giorgio Savini and Anna Scaife and Graham Smith and Mark Thompson and Glenn White and Kris Zarb-Adami and James Allison and Jane Buckle and Alberto Castro-Tirado and Maria Chernyakova and Roger Deane and Farhan Feroz and Ricardo Genova Santos and David Green and Diana Hannikainen and Ian Heywood and Natasha Hurley-Walker and Ruediger Kneissl and Karri Koljonen and Shrinivas Kulkarni and Sera Markoff and Carrie MacTavish and Michael McCollough and Simone Migliari and Jon M. Miller and James Miller-Jones and Malak Olamaie and Zsolt Paragi and Timothy Pearson and Guy Pooley and Katja Pottschmidt and Rafael Rebolo and John Richer and Julia Riley and Jerome Rodriguez and Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez and Anthony Rushton and Petri Savolainen and Paul Scott and Timothy Shimwell and Marco Tavani and John Tomsick and Valeriu Tudose and Kurt van der Heyden and Alexander van der Horst and Angelo Varlotta and Elizabeth Waldram and Joern Wilms and Andrzej Zdziarski and Jonathan Zwart and Yvette Perrott and Clare Rumsey and Michel Schammel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1966},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
20 pages, 11 figures; white paper. Revised author list, section IB, section IIIC2, references