English
Related papers

Related papers: Square Kilometre Array: a concept design for Phase…

200 papers

The Square Kilometer Array will initiate a new era of radio astronomy by allowing 3D imaging of the Universe during Cosmic Dawn and Reionization. Modern machine learning is crucial to analyse the highly structured and complex signal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Ayodele Ore , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn

In this short contribution we consider what types of surveys might be optimally pursued with path-finding instruments of 1%, 10% and finally 100% of the projected SKA sensitivity from the perspective of scientific applications that utilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be operating at the time when several new large optical, X-ray and Gamma-ray facilities are expected to be working. To make SKA both competitive and complementary to these large facilities, thorough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 Dharam Vir Lal , Andrei P. Lobanov , Sergio Jiménez-Monferrer

We present an update on the NZ-wide advances in the field of Radio Astronomy and Radio Engineering with a particular focus on contributions, not thus reported elsewhere, which hope to either directly or indirectly contribute to New…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 M. Johnston-Hollitt , V. Kitaev , C. P. Hollitt , N. Jones , T. C. Motleno

As the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) approaches operational status, its complex digital architecture introduces new instrumental challenges. To explore relevant observational and data processing strategies, we have upgraded the 21CMA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jun-Hua Gu , Quan Guo , Liang Dong , Yu-Kai Zhou , Kuan-Jun Li , Yan Huang , Jing-Ying Wang , Wei-Wei Zhu , You-Ling Yue , Rui Cao , Guo-Liang Peng , Xiao-Hui Tao , Li-Hui Jiang , Ya-Jun Wu

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. Its immense amount of visibility data poses a considerable challenge to the subsequent processing by the science data processor (SDP).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Qing-Wen Deng , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Jing Li , Oleg Smirnov , Shao-Guang Guo

This paper is the first in a series of papers describing the impact of antenna instrumental artefacts on the 21-cm cosmology experiments to be carried out by the low frequency instrument (SKA1-LOW) of the Square Kilometre Array telescope…

Interferometry of the cosmic 21-cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) and the Cosmic Dawn (CD). The culmination of ongoing efforts will be the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Concerted effort is currently ongoing to open up the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) ($z\sim$15-6) for studies with IR and radio telescopes. Whereas IR detections have been made of sources (Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters, quasars and drop-outs) in…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will produce spectroscopic surveys of tens to hundreds of millions of HI galaxies, eventually covering 30,000 sq. deg. and reaching out to redshift z~2. The huge volumes probed by the SKA will allow for some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-25 Stefano Camera , Mario G. Santos , Roy Maartens

In order to deliver the full science potential of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope, several SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) will be required to be constructed in different SKA member countries around the world. These SRCs will provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yogesh Wadadekar , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Abhirup Datta , Surajit Paul , Divya Oberoi

The seven-dish KAT-7 array was built as an engineering test-bed for the 64-dish Karoo Array Telescope, known as MeerKAT, which is the South African precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). KAT-7 and MeerKAT are located close to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-16 Claude Carignan

This document was submitted as part of the SKA Low Frequency Aperture Array Critical Design Review describing the electromagnetic design of the SKA1-LOW antenna that took place between 2013 and 2018. The SKA1 LOW antenna has been developed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Eloy de Lera Acedo , Hardie Pienaar

We describe the design and performance of the Engineering Development Array (EDA), which is a low frequency radio telescope comprising 256 dual-polarisation dipole antennas working as a phased-array. The EDA was conceived of, developed, and…

In the past several decades, the standard cosmological model has been established and its parameters have been measured to a high precision, while there are still many of the fundamental questions in cosmology; such as the physics in the…

The unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and broad bandwidth coverage of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio polarimetric observations will allow us to address many long-standing mysteries in cosmic magnetism science. I will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 S. A. Mao

We present the Engineering Development Array 2, which is one of two instruments built as a second generation prototype station for the future Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency Array. The array is comprised of 256 dual-polarization dipole…