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The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a five-station, in-ice radio detector located at the South Pole searching for particle cascades from cosmogenic and astrophysical neutrinos with $\geq10^{17}$ eV of energy. Cascades in this energy regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Abigail Bishop , Alan Salcedo Gomez , Marco Stein Muzio

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) provides an excellent opportunity for low cost searches for fast radio transients. The increased sensitivity and field of view of the SKA compared with other radio telescopes will make it an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Colegate , N. Clarke

The lunar Cherenkov technique is a method to use radio-telescopes to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays (CR) and neutrinos ($\nu$). By observing the short-duration ($\sim$few nanosecond) pulses of coherent Cherenkov radiation emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-27 C. W. James , R. D. Ekers , C. J. Philips , R. J. Protheroe , P. Roberts , R. A. Robinson , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , J. D. Bray

We investigate the use of next generation radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to detect axion two-photon coupling in the astrophysical environment. The uncertainty surrounding astrophysical magnetic fields presents new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Katharine Kelley , P. J. Quinn

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the radio telescope of the next generation, providing an increase in sensitivity and angular resolution of two orders of magnitude over existing telescopes. Currently, the SKA is expected to span the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Green , W. A. Baan

The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the most sensitive and exhaustive search for…

Ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos and cosmic rays initiate particle cascades underneath the Moon's surface. These cascades have a negative charge excess and radiate Cherenkov radio emission in a process known as the Askaryan effect. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Buitink , O. Scholten , J. Bacelar , R. Braun , A. G. de Bruyn , H. Falcke , K. Singh , B. Stappers , R. G. Strom , R. al Yahyaoui

[ABRIDGED VERSION] The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries. The SKA will be 50 times more sensitive than any existing radio facility. A…

The most sensitive method for detecting neutrinos at the very highest energies is the lunar Cherenkov technique, which employs the Moon as a target volume, using conventional radio telescopes to monitor it for nanosecond-scale pulses of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. D. Bray , R. D. Ekers , C. W. James , P. Roberts , A. Brown , C. J. Phillips , R. J. Protheroe , J. E. Reynolds , R. A. McFadden , M. Aartsen

The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries that will be 50 times more sensitive than any existing radio facility. Most of the key science…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 Simon Johnston , Ilana J. Feain , Neeraj Gupta

As of 2023, the Square Kilometre Array will constitute the world's largest radio telescope, offering unprecedented capabilities for a diverse science programme in radio astronomy. At the same time, the SKA will be ideally suited to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , A. Haungs , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder , A. Zilles

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultra-high energy ($>10^{17}$ eV) cosmic neutrino detector in phased construction near the South Pole. ARA searches for radio Cherenkov emission from particle cascades induced by neutrino interactions in…

SKA is a new technology radio-telescope array, about two orders of magnitude more sensitive and rapid in sky surveys than present instruments. It will probe the dark age of the universe, just afer recombination, and during the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Francoise Combes

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest radio telescope ever built, aiming to provide collecting area larger than 1 km$^2$. The SKA will have two independent instruments, SKA-LOW comprising of dipoles organized as aperture…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 A. Nindos , E. P. Kontar , D. Oberoi

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the premier instrument to study radiation at centimetre and metre wavelengths from the cosmos, and in particular hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe. The SKA will probe the dawn of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Minh Huynh , Joseph Lazio

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino detector at the South Pole, designed to search for radio pulses emitted by neutrino-initiated particle showers in ice. ARA consists of an array of five autonomous stations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Stein Muzio

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a neutrino experiment at the South Pole, designed to detect radio-frequency emissions produced by interactions of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos with the Antarctic ice. The array consists of five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Pawan Giri

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope distinguished by a superb sensitivity due to its large aperture (about one square kilometre) and advanced instrumentation. It will cover a broad range of observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 J. G. Bij de Vaate , L. I. Gurvits , S. V. Pogrebenko , C. G. M. van t Klooster

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is intended as the next-generation radio telescope and will address fundamental questions in astrophysics, physics, and astrobiology. The international science community has developed a set of Key Science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-06 Joseph Lazio

We report on studies of the viability and sensitivity of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a new initiative to develop a Teraton-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detector in deep, radio-transparent ice near Amundsen-Scott station at the South…