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This decade, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will perform its first observations. Preparations for building dishes, antennas, correlators and infrastructure are well underway. Concurrently, software for the processing of SKA observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 H. Spreeuw , S. Yatawatta , B. Van Werkhoven , F. Diblen

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimum multi-domain real-time beamforming and high-precision beam pattern positioning in application to very large wideband array antennas, particularly to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-25 Vasily A. Khlebnikov , Kristian Zarb-Adami , Richard P. Armstrong , Michael E. Jones

We present the Engineering Development Array 2, which is one of two instruments built as a second generation prototype station for the future Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency Array. The array is comprised of 256 dual-polarization dipole…

This document was submitted as supporting material to an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This ECP requests gridded visibilities as an extra imaging data product from the SKA, in order to enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-24 Ian Harrison , Michael L. Brown

The new generation of radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), requires dramatic advances in computer hardware and software, in order to process the large amounts of produced data efficiently. In this document, we explore…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Matthias Petschow

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

The era of the Square Kilometre Array is almost upon us, and pathfinder telescopes are already in operation. This brief review summarizes our current knowledge of extragalactic radio sources, accumulated through six decades of continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-22 Chris Simpson

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a 36-element array with a 30-square-degree field of view being built at the proposed SKA site in Western Australia. We are conducting a Design Study for pulsar observations with…

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 SKA will be transformational for many areas of science, but in particular for the study of neutron stars and their usage as tools for fundamental physics in the form of radio pulsars. Since the last science case for the SKA, numerous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 Michael Kramer , Ben Stappers

This paper presents the design and deployment of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) phase II system. HERA is designed as a staged experiment targeting 21 cm emission measurements of the Epoch of Reionization. First results from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Lindsay M. Berkhout , Daniel C. Jacobs , Zuhra Abdurashidova , Tyrone Adams , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki S. Ali , Rushelle Baartman , Yanga Balfour , Adam P. Beardsley , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee S. Billings , Judd D. Bowman , Richard F. Bradley , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Chris L. Carilli , Kai-Feng Chen , Carina Cheng , Samir Choudhuri , David R. DeBoer , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Matt Dexter , Joshua S. Dillon , Scott Dynes , Nico Eksteen , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Nicolas Fagnoni , Randall Fritz , Steven R. Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Hugh Garsden , Bharat Kumar Gehlot , Abhik Ghosh , Brian Glendenning , Adelie Gorce , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Bryna J. Hazelton , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Jack Hickish , Tian Huang , Alec Josaitis , Austin Julius , MacCalvin Kariseb , Nicholas S. Kern , Joshua Kerrigan , Honggeun Kim , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Saul A. Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Adrian Liu , Anita Loots , Yin-Zhe Ma , David Harold Edward MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Keith Malgas , Bradley Marero , Zachary E. Martinot , Andrei Mesinger , Mathakane Molewa , Miguel F. Morales , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Steven G. Murray , Abraham R. Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee , Hans Nuwegeld , Aaron R. Parsons , Robert Pascua , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Yuxiang Qin , Eleanor Rath , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Daniel Riley , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Mario G. Santos , Peter Sims , Saurabh Singh , Dara Storer , Hilton Swarts , Jianrong Tan , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Pieter van Wyngaarden , Peter K. G. Williams , Haoxuan Zheng , Zhilei Xu

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

Interferometry of the cosmic 21-cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) and the Cosmic Dawn (CD). The culmination of ongoing efforts will be the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger , Léon V. E. Koopmans

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) would be the world's largest radio telescope with eventually over a square kilometer of collecting area. However, there are enormous challenges in its data processing. The using of modern distributed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shoulin Wei , Kaida Luo , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei

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…

The Square Kilometre Array will revolutionize pulsar studies with its wide field-of-view, wide-band observation and high sensitivity, increasing the number of observable pulsars by more than an order of magnitude. Pulsars are of interest…

The low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1-Low) will be an aperture phased array located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) site in Western Australia. It will be composed of 512 stations, each of them…

New developments in data processing and visualization are being made in preparation for upcoming radioastronomical surveys planned with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors. A major goal is enabling extraction of science…

We report on the design, deployment, and first results from a scintillation detector deployed at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). The detector is a prototype for a larger array -- the Square Kilometre Array Particle Array…

Radio emission from stars can be used, e.g., to study ionized winds or stellar flares. The radio emission is faint and studies have been limited to few objects. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will bring a survey ability to the topic of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Bin Yu , Albert Zijlstra , Biwei Jiang