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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

Over the last decade, Aperture Arrays (AA) have successfully replaced parabolic dishes as the technology of choice at low radio frequencies - good examples are the MWA, LWA and LOFAR. Aperture Array based telescopes present several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Michael Garrett , Andrew Siemion , Wim van Cappellen

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, requiring the…

Galaxy redshift surveys using optical telescopes have, in combination with other cosmological probes, enabled precision measurements of the nature of dark energy. We show that radio telescopes are rapidly becoming competitive with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Alan R. Duffy

The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is a planned radio interferometer providing unprecedented sensitivity at wavelengths between 21 cm and 3 mm. Its 263 antenna element array will be spatially distributed across North America to…

I outline the prospects for performing weak lensing studies with the new generation of radio telescopes that are coming online now and in the future. I include a description of a proposed technique to use polarization observations in radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Michael L Brown

The first phase of the ATLAS (Australia Telescope Large Area Survey) project surveyed a total 7 square degrees down to 30 micro Jy rms at 1.4 GHz and is the largest sensitive radio survey ever attempted. We report on the scientific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-18 E. Lenc , R. Norris , C. Hales , K. Randall , A. Hopkins , R. Sharp , M. Huynh , M. Mao , E. Middelberg

We present the results of our investigations into options for the computing platform for the imaging pipeline in the CHILES project, an ultra-deep HI pathfinder for the era of the Square Kilometre Array. CHILES pushes the current computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Richard Dodson , Kevin Vinsen , Chen Wu , Attila Popping , Martin Meyer , Andreas Wicenec , Peter Quinn , Jacqueline van Gorkom , Emmanuel Momjian

The fields of solar radiophysics and solar system radio physics, or radio heliophysics, will benefit immensely from an instrument with the capabilities projected for SKA. Potential applications include interplanetary scintillation (IPS),…

The Square Kilometer Array will have the sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency resolution to provide new scientific knowledge of evolved stars. Four basic areas of scientific exploration are enhanced by the construction of the SKA:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin Marvel

We construct a pipeline for simulating weak lensing cosmology surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), taking as inputs telescope sensitivity curves; correlated source flux, size and redshift distributions; a simple ionospheric model;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Bonaldi , Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

Probing the nature of dark matter (DM) remains an outstanding problem in modern cosmology. The 21 cm signal, as a sensitive tracer of neutral hydrogen during cosmic dawn, provides a unique means to investigate DM nature during this critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Meng-Lin Zhao , Yue Shao , Sai Wang , Xin Zhang

The current generation of air shower radio arrays has demonstrated that the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with high accuracy. These experiments are now contributing to mass composition studies in the…

The advent of next generation radio telescope facilities, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will usher in an era where a Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) based search for gravitational waves (GWs) will be able to use hundreds of well timed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Parallax measurements of pulsars allow for accurate measurements of the interstellar electron density and contribute to accurate tests of general relativity using binary systems. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Smits , S. J. Tingay , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. Stappers

High angular resolution observations of discs at mm wavelengths (on scales of a few au) are now commonplace, but there is a current lack of a comparable angular resolution for observations at cm wavelengths. This presents a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 John D. Ilee , Cassandra Hall , Catherine Walsh , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , Christophe Pinte , Jason Terry , Tyler Bourke , Melvin Hoare

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) infrastructure will consist of two radio telescopes that will be the most sensitive telescopes on Earth. The SKA community will have to process and manage near exascale data, which will be a technical…

The Square Kilometre Array telescopes have recently started their construction phase, after years of pre-construction effort. The new SKA Observatory (SKAO) intergovernmental organisation has been created, and the start of construction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 J. Santander-Vela , M. Bartolini , and , M. Miccolis , N. Rees

We give an overview of complementarity and synergy in cosmology between the Square Kilometre Array and future survey projects in other wavelengths. In the SKA era, precision cosmology will be limited by systematic errors and cosmic…

Radio continuum surveys have, in the past, been of restricted use in cosmology. Most studies have concentrated on cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, due to the large sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Matt J. Jarvis , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Michael L. Brown , Sam N. Lindsay , Alvise Raccanelli , Mario Santos , Dominik Schwarz