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The SKA will be capable of producing a stream of science data products that are Exa-scale in terms of their storage and processing requirements. This Google-scale enterprise is attracting considerable international interest and excitement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-23 Peter Quinn , Tim Axelrod , Ian Bird , Richard Dodson , Alex Szalay , Andreas Wicenec

The epoch of reionization (EoR) sets a fundamental benchmark in cosmic structure formation, corresponding to the formation of the first luminous objects that act to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Recent observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Carilli , S. Furlanetto , F. Briggs , M. Jarvis , S. Rawlings , H. Falcke

The scientific motivation is reviewed for a next generation radio observatory operating at frequencies between about 200 MHz and 2 GHz with about 2 orders of magnitude greater sensitivity than that which is currently available, together…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Robert Braun

We discuss the advantages which the next generation interferometer SKA (the Square Kilometer Array) will bring for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at centimeter wavelengths. With a sensitivity to micro-Jy level flux density, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Krichbaum , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

Stars and planetary systems are formed out of molecular clouds in the interstellar medium. Although the sequence of steps involved in star formation are generally known, a comprehensive theory which describes the details of the processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 P. Manoj , S. Vig , G. Mahewar , U. S. Kamath , A. Tej

The low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1-Low) will be an aperture phased array located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) site in Western Australia. It will be composed of 512 stations, each of them…

We study the prospects to measure the cosmic radio dipole by means of continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array. Such a measurement will allow a critical test of the cosmological principle. It will test whether the cosmic rest frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Dominik J. Schwarz , Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Roy Maartens , Thilo M. Siewert

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Prina Patel , Ian Harrison , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Abdalla , David Bacon , Michael L. Brown , Ian Heywood , Matt Jarvis , Oleg Smirnov

Astronomy at or below the 'survey threshold' has expanded significantly since the publication of the original 'Science with the Square Kilometer Array' in 1999 and its update in 2004. The techniques in this regime may be broadly (but far…

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope designed to operate between 70MHz and 10GHz. Due to this large bandwidth, the SKA will be built out of different collectors, namely antennas and dishes to cover the frequency range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela , Babak E. Cohanim

Origin of magnetic fields, its structure and effects on dynamical processes in stars to galaxies are not well understood. Lack of a direct probe has hampered its study. The first phase of Square Kilometre Array (SKA-I), will have more than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Subhashis Roy , Sharanya Sur , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Arun Mangalam , TR Seshadri , Hum Chand

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory is gearing up the formal construction of its two radio interferometers in Australia and South Africa after the end of design and pre-construction phases. Agile methodologies, the Cloud native…

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

Contemporary cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments typically have observing bands covering the range 20 - 800 GHz. Certain science goals, including the detection of $\mu$-type distortions to the CMB spectrum and the characterization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Jens Chluba , Mathieu Remazeilles , Keith Grainge

Future observations of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen survey will become a promising approach to probe the large scale structure of Universe. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 21 cm observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jing-Fei Zhang , Li-Yang Gao , Dong-Ze He , Xin Zhang

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

In the near future, the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) will allow surveys for maser sources with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral coverage and spectroscopic capabilities. In particular, comprehensive surveys for many maser species with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl M. Menten

We review some of the major contributions that the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will provide for Cosmology. We discuss the SKA measurements of the equation of state parameter for dark energy from Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-25 Orfeu Bertolami , Cláudio Gomes

In this decade astronomy is undergoing a paradigm shift to handle data from next generation observatories such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) or the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (LSST). Producing real time data streams of up to 10 TB/s…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Michael A. C. Johnson , Marcus Paradies , Marta Dembska , Kristen Lackeos , Hans-Rainer Klöckner , David J. Champion , Sirko Schindler