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With the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1) entering into its final pre-construction phase, we investigate how best to maximise its scientific return. Specifically, we focus on the statistical measurement of the 21 cm power…

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Modern radio telescope surveys, capable of detecting billions of galaxies in wide-field surveys, have made manual morphological classification impracticable. This applies in particular when the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)…

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Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Xiaohao Cai , David Perez-Suarez , Ilektra Christidi , Roland Guichard

Backed by advances in digital electronics, signal processing, computation, and storage technologies, aperture arrays, which had strongly influenced the design of telescopes in the early years of radio astronomy, have made a comeback. Amid…

Modern radio telescopes will daily generate data sets on the scale of exabytes for systems like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Massive data sets are a source of unknown and rare astrophysical phenomena that lead to discoveries.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Steven Ndung'u , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

Modern radio telescopes generate large amounts of data, with the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) expected to feed up to 292 GB of visibilities per second to the science data processor (SDP).…

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

This paper presents the High-Performance computing efforts with FPGA for the accelerated pulsar/transient search for the SKA. Case studies are presented from within SKA and pathfinder telescopes highlighting future opportunities. It reviews…

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is expected to produce humongous amount of data for undertaking H{\sc i}~science. We have developed an MPI-based {\sc Python} pipeline to deal with the large data efficiently with the present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Manoj Jagannath , Aishrila Mazumder , Arnab Chakraborty , Narendra Nath Patra , Rajesh Mondal , Samir Choudhuri

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…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), currently under design, will be a transformational facility for studying the Universe at centimetre and metre wavelengths in the next decade and beyond. This paper provides the current best estimate of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Robert Braun , Anna Bonaldi , Tyler Bourke , Evan Keane , Jeff Wagg

Next-generation telescopes will bring groundbreaking discoveries but they will also present new technological challenges. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will be one of the most demanding scientific infrastructures, with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 I. Labadie-García , J. Garrido , L. Verdes-Montenegro , M. Á. Mendoza , M. Parra-Royón , S. Sánchez-Expósito , R. Ianjamasimanana

The unprecedented volume of data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescopes will require the implementation of robust and solid strategies for efficient data processing and management. In this context, the SKA Regional Centre Network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Edgar Ribeiro João , Manuel Parra-Royón , Julián Garrido

Graph partitioning schedules parallel calculations like sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV). We consider contiguous partitions, where the $m$ rows (or columns) of a sparse matrix with $N$ nonzeros are split into $K$ parts without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Willow Ahrens

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the currently under construction Square Kilometer Array (SKA), allows for observing the universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. However, these telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 S. Wang , S. Prunet , S. Mignot , A. Ferrari

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

We review the current status of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) by outlining the science drivers for its Phase-1 (SKA1) and setting out the timeline for the key decisions and milestones on the way to the planned start of its construction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-31 Steve Rawlings , Richard Schilizzi

Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is one of the final frontiers of modern observational cosmology. The inherently faint signal makes it susceptible to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Arnab Chakraborty , Saurabh Singh , Anshuman Tripathi , Madhurima Choudhury

Current graph systems can easily process billions of data, however when increased to exceed hundred billions, the performance decreases dramatically, time series data always be very huge, consequently computation on time series graphs still…

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