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One of the Survey Science Projects that the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will do in its first few years of operation is a study of the 21-cm line of HI and the 18-cm lines of OH in the Galactic Plane and…

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The telescope surveys a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joshua Pepper , Rudolf B. Kuhn , Robert Siverd , David James , Keivan Stassun

Processing astronomical data often comes with huge challenges with regards to data management as well as data processing. MeerKAT telescope is one of the precursor telescopes of the World's largest observatory - Square Kilometre Array. So…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Priyaa Thavasimani , Anna Scaife

The Magellanic Clouds are a stepping stone from the overwhelming detail of the Milky Way in which we are immersed, to the global characteristics of galaxies both in the nearby and distant universe. They are interacting, gas-rich dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-06 Jacco Th. van Loon , The GASKAP Team , The MagiKAT Team

The concept of a Square Kilometre Array was developed to ensure that progress in Radio Astronomy in the early 21st Century continued at the same impressive pace as was achieved during the first 50 years. The SKA telescope is designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 Lisa Harvey-Smith

Precise cosmological measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Da Pan , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

The use of continuum emission radio galaxies as cosmological tracers of the large-scale structure will soon move into a new phase. Upcoming surveys from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), MeerKAT, and the Square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jacobo Asorey , David Parkinson

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity and survey speed than any current radio telescope. The SKA…

SKA-MID surveys will be the first in the radio domain to achieve clearly sub-arcsecond resolution at high sensitivity over large areas, opening new science applications for galaxy evolution. To investigate the potential of these surveys, we…

This white paper gives a brief summary of Galactic continuum surveys with the next generation 850 micron camera at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in the next decade. This new camera will have mapping speeds at least 10-20 times…

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) for measuring the magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies via Faraday rotation of background polarised sources. [...] We find that about 10 per cent of the sky is covered by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Krause , Paul Alexander , Rosie Bolton , Joern Geisbuesch , David A. Green , Julia Riley

A new astronomical window into the southern skies has been opened with the high-frequency upgrade to the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), which allows radio-interferometric mapping of sources at wavelengths as short as 3mm. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Wong , A. Melatos

We conduct the first case study towards developing optimal foreground mitigation strategies for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping using radio interferometers at low redshifts. A pipeline for simulation, foreground mitigation and power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Richard Battye

Deep wide spectral line surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will expand the cosmic frontiers of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in galaxies. However, at cosmologically significant redshifts ($z \gtrsim 0.5$), detections will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-12 Charissa Button , Roger Deane

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project to build the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. Its innovative engineering concept and design pave a new road to realize a huge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Rendong Nan , Di Li , Chengjin Jin , Qiming Wang , Lichun Zhu , Wenbai Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Youling Yue , Lei Qian

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is perhaps the most ambitious radio telescope envisaged yet. It will enable unprecedented studies of the Sun, the corona and the heliosphere and help to answer many of the outstanding questions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Divya Oberoi , Susanta Kumar Bisoi , K. Sasikumar Raja , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Atul Mohan , Surajit Mondal , Rohit Sharma

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 atomic hydrogen (HI) 21cm line measures the gas content within and around galaxies, traces the dark matter potential and probes volumes and objects that other surveys do not. Over the next decade, 21cm line science will exploit new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martha P. Haynes

MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of angular scales. The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 K. Knowles , W. D. Cotton , L. Rudnick , F. Camilo , S. Goedhart , R. Deane , M. Ramatsoku , M. F. Bietenholz , M. Brüggen , C. Button , H. Chen , J. O. Chibueze , T. E. Clarke , F. de Gasperin , R. Ianjamasimanana , G. I. G. Józsa , M. Hilton , K. C. Kesebonye , K. Kolokythas , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , G. Lawrie , M. Lochner , S. I. Loubser , P. Marchegiani , N. Mhlahlo , K. Moodley , E. Murphy , B. Namumba , N. Oozeer , V. Parekh , D. S. Pillay , S. S. Passmoor , A. J. T. Ramaila , S. Ranchod , E. Retana-Montenegro , L. Sebokolodi , S. P. Sikhosana , O. Smirnov , K. Thorat , T. Venturi , T. D. Abbott , R. M. Adam , G. Adams , M. A. Aldera , E. F. Bauermeister , T. G. H. Bennett , W. A. Bode , D. H. Botha , A. G. Botha , L. R. S. Brederode , S. Buchner , J. P. Burger , T. Cheetham , D. I. L. de Villiers , M. A. Dikgale-Mahlakoana , L. J. du Toit , S. W. P. Esterhuyse , G. Fadana , B. L. Fanaroff , S. Fataar , A. R. Foley , D. J. Fourie , B. S. Frank , R. R. G. Gamatham , T. G. Gatsi , M. Geyer , M. Gouws , S. C. Gumede , I. Heywood , M. J. Hlakola , A. Hokwana , S. W. Hoosen , D. M. Horn , J. M. G. Horrell , B. V. Hugo , A. R. Isaacson , J. L. Jonas , J. D. B. Jordaan , A. F. Joubert , R. P. M. Julie , F. B. Kapp , V. A. Kasper , J. S. Kenyon , P. P. A. Kotzé , A. G. Kotze , N. Kriek , H. Kriel , V. K. Krishnan , T. W. Kusel , L. S. Legodi , R. Lehmensiek , D. Liebenberg , R. T. Lord , B. M. Lunsky , K. Madisa , L. G. Magnus , J. P. L. Main , A. Makhaba , S. Makhathini , J. A. Malan , J. R. Manley , S. J. Marais , M. D. J. Maree , A. Martens , T. Mauch , K. McAlpine , B. C. Merry , R. P. Millenaar , O. J. Mokone , T. E. Monama , M. C. Mphego , W. S. New , B. Ngcebetsha , K. J. Ngoasheng , M. T. Ockards , A. J. Otto , A. A. Patel , A. Peens-Hough , S. J. Perkins , N. M. Ramanujam , Z. R. Ramudzuli , S. M. Ratcliffe , R. Renil , A. Robyntjies , A. N. Rust , S. Salie , N. Sambu , C. T. G. Schollar , L. C. Schwardt , R. L. Schwartz , M. Serylak , R. Siebrits , S. K. Sirothia , M. Slabber , L. Sofeya , B. Taljaard , C. Tasse , A. J. Tiplady , O. Toruvanda , S. N. Twum , T. J. van Balla , A. van der Byl , C. van der Merwe , C. L. van Dyk , V. Van Tonder , R. Van Wyk , A. J. Venter , M. Venter , M. G. Welz , L. P. Williams , B. Xaia

We discuss the detection of redshifted line and continuum emission at radio wavelengths using a Square Kilometer Array (SKA), specifically from low-excitation rotational molecular line transitions of CO and HCN (molecular lines), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew W. Blain , C. L. Carilli , Jeremy Darling