English

SKA Aperture Array Mid Frequency Science Requirements

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2017-01-24 v2

Abstract

This document describes the top level requirements for the SKA-AAMID telescope as determined by the SKA key science projects. These include parameters such as operating frequency range,instantaneous bandwidth (total processed bandwidth), field of view (or survey speed, as appropriate), sensitivity, dynamic range, polarization purity etc. Moreover, through the definition of a set of science requirements, this document serves as input to a number of other documents contained within the System Requirements Review package. (particularly SKA-TEL-MFAA-0200005: `SKA-AAMID System Requirements' and SKA-TEL-MFAA-0200008: `MFAA Requirements').

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.00683,
  title  = {SKA Aperture Array Mid Frequency Science Requirements},
  author = {S. A. Torchinsky and J. W. Broderick and A. Gunst and A. J. Faulkner and W. van Cappellen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00683},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Science Requirements for the Square Kilometre Array Mid Frequency Aperture Array. Updated with additional Figure 2, and some requirements updated after comments by the System Requirements Review panel

R2 v1 2026-06-22T16:09:09.830Z