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The unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and broad bandwidth coverage of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio polarimetric observations will allow us to address many long-standing mysteries in cosmic magnetism science. I will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 S. A. Mao

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope, with one square kilometer collecting area. Besides its ambitious scientific objectives, such as probing the cosmic dawn and cradle of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-23 B. Wang , X. Zhu , C. Gao , Y. Bai , J. W. Dong , L. J. Wang

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will offer an unprecedented view onto the early Universe, using interferometric observations of the redshifted 21cm line. The 21cm line probes the thermal and ionization state of the cosmic gas, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Bradley Greig , Ilian Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jonathan Pritchard , Mario G. Santos

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 present-day Universe is seemingly dominated by dark energy and dark matter, but mapping the normal (baryonic) content remains vital for both astrophysics - understanding how galaxies form - and astro-particle physics - inferring…

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

We present an update on the NZ-wide advances in the field of Radio Astronomy and Radio Engineering with a particular focus on contributions, not thus reported elsewhere, which hope to either directly or indirectly contribute to New…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 M. Johnston-Hollitt , V. Kitaev , C. P. Hollitt , N. Jones , T. C. Motleno

The extremely high sensitivity and resolution of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be useful for addressing a wide set of themes relevant for cosmology, in synergy with current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) projects. Many…

We argue that the Square Kilometre Array has the potential to make both redshift (HI) surveys and radio continuum surveys that will revolutionize cosmological studies, provided that it has sufficient instantaneous field-of-view that these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Blake , Filipe Abdalla , Sarah Bridle , Steve Rawlings

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn (EoR/CD) experiments aim to explore the growth of structure and production of ionising radiation in the first billion years of the Universe. Here I describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Cathryn M. Trott

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the largest Global science project of the next two decades. It will encompass a sensor network dedicated to radioastronomy, covering two continents. It will be constructed in remote areas of South…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world s largest radio telescope, enabling science with unprecedented detail and survey speed. The project spans over a decade and is now at a mature stage,…

When completed the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will feature an unprecedented rate of image generation. While previous generations of telescopes have relied on human expertise to extract scientifically interesting information from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 C. Hollitt , M. Johnston-Hollitt , S. Dehghan , M. Frean , T. Bulter-Yeoman

We study the potential of the Square Kilometre Array in the first phase (SKA1) in detecting dark matter annihilation signals from dwarf spheroidals in the form of diffuse radio synchrotron. Taking the minimal supersymmetric standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-06 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Over the past few years two of the largest and highest fidelity experiments conceived have been approved for construction: Euclid is an ESA M-Class mission that will map three-quarters of the extra galactic sky with Hubble Space Telescope…

The study of the Universe on ultra-large scales is one of the major science cases for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be able to probe a vast volume of the cosmos, thus representing a unique instrument, amongst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 S. Camera , A. Raccanelli , P. Bull , D. Bertacca , X. Chen , P. G. Ferreira , M. Kunz , R. Maartens , Y. Mao , M. G. Santos , P. R. Shapiro , M. Viel , Y. Xu

Most of the pulsar science case with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) depends on long-term precision pulsar timing of a large number of pulsars, as well as astrometric measurements of these using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 E. F. Keane , V. Graber , L. Levin , C. M. Tan , O. A. Johnson , C. Ng , C. Pardo-Araujo , M. Ronchi , D. Vohl , M. Xue , The SKA Pulsar Science Working Group

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will become the largest astronomical observation facility, and is expected to introduce revolutionary changes in major fields of natural sciences. These revolutionary changes help us…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Tao An