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One of the five key science projects for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism", in which radio polarimetry will be used to reveal what cosmic magnets look like and what role they have played in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bryan M. Gaensler

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), a collaborative project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has begun operation on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A total of eight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul T. P. Ho , James M. Moran , Kwok Yung Lo

This is the second part in a pair of papers forecasting the sensitivity of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to dark photons, a highly motivated, simple extension of the Standard Model. Through a kinetic mixing term, visible photons from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ethan Baker , Hongwan Liu

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate one of the world's largest continuous scientific data systems, sustaining petascale imaging under strict power envelopes. Current radio-interferometric pipelines typically achieve only 4-14% of…

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

This paper presents the measured sensitivity of CSIRO's first Mk. II phased array feed (PAF) on an ASKAP antenna. The Mk. II achieves a minimum system-temperature-over-efficiency $T_\mathrm{sys}/\eta$ of 78 K at 1.23 GHz and is 95 K or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 A. P. Chippendale , A. J. Brown , R. J. Beresford , G. A. Hampson , A. Macleod , R. D. Shaw , M. L. Brothers , C. Cantrall , A. R. Forsyth , S. G. Hay , M. Leach

21cm intensity mapping experiments aim to observe the diffuse neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution on large scales which traces the Cosmic structure. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the capacity to measure the 21cm signal over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laura Wolz , Filipe B. Abdalla , David Alonso , Chris Blake , Philip Bull , Tzu-Ching Chang , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Marios G. Santos , Richard Shaw

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), when it becomes functional, is expected to enrich neutron star (NS) catalogues by at least an order of magnitude over their current state. This includes the discovery of new NS objects leading to better…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Mihir Arjunwadkar , Akanksha Kashikar , Manjari Bagchi

The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is an astronomical observatory planned to operate at centimeter wavelengths (25 to 0.26 centimeters, corresponding to a frequency range extending from 1.2 to 116 GHz). The observatory will be a…

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for a lens antenna array (LAA) designed to work with a small number of antennas and enable angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation for advanced 5G vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases that demand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Joo-Hyun Jo , Jae-Nam Shim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Dong Ku Kim , Robert W. Heath

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is called to revolutionise essentially all areas of Astrophysics. With a collecting area of about a square kilometre, the SKA will be a transformational instrument, and its scientific potential will go…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. A. Acosta-Pulido , I. Agudo , A. Alberdi , J. Alcolea , E. J. Alfaro , A. Alonso-Herrero , G. Anglada , P. Arnalte-Mur , Y. Ascasibar , B. Ascaso , R. Azulay , R. Bachiller , A. Baez-Rubio , E. Battaner , J. Blasco , C. B. Brook , V. Bujarrabal , G. Busquet , M. D. Caballero-Garcia , C. Carrasco-Gonzalez , J. Casares , A. J. Castro-Tirado , L. Colina , F. Colomer , I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo , A. del Olmo , J. -F. Desmurs , J. M. Diego , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , R. Estalella , A. Fernandez-Soto , E. Florido , J. Font , J. A. Font , A. Fuente , R. Garcia-Benito , S. Garcia-Burillo , B. Garcia-Lorenzo , A. Gil de Paz , J. M. Girart , J. R. Goicoechea , J. F. Gomez , M. Gonzalez-Garcia , O. Gonzalez-Martin , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano , J. Gorgas , J. Gorosabel , A. Guijarro , J. C. Guirado , L. Hernandez-Garcia , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , R. Herrero-Illana , Y. -D. Hu , N. Huelamo , M. Huertas-Company , J. Iglesias-Paramo , S. Jeong , I. Jimenez-Serra , J. H. Knapen , R. A. Lineros , U. Lisenfeld , J. M. Marcaide , I. Marquez , J. Marti , J. M. Marti , I. Marti-Vidal , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , J. Martin-Pintado , J. Masegosa , J. M. Mayen-Gijon , M. Mezcua , S. Migliari , P. Mimica , J. Moldon , O. Morata , I. Negueruela , S. R. Oates , M. Osorio , A. Palau , J. M. Paredes , J. Perea , P. G. Perez-Gonzalez , E. Perez-Montero , M. A. Perez-Torres , M. Perucho , S. Planelles , J. A. Pons , A. Prieto , V. Quilis , P. Ramirez-Moreta , C. Ramos Almeida , N. Rea , M. Ribo , M. J. Rioja , J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa , E. Ros , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , B. Ruiz-Granados , J. Sabater , S. Sanchez , C. Sanchez-Contreras , A. Sanchez-Monge , R. Sanchez-Ramirez , A. M. Sintes , J. M. Solanes , C. F. Sopuerta , M. Tafalla , J. C. Tello , B. Tercero , M. C. Toribio , J. M. Torrelles , M. A. P. Torres , A. Usero , L. Verdes-Montenegro , A. Vidal-Garcia , P. Vielva , J. Vilchez , B. -B. Zhang

One of the clearest signs of black hole activity is the presence of a compact radio core in the nuclei of galaxies. With the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) these cores can be used to study the evolution of black holes throughout the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Falcke , E. Koerding , N. M. Nagar

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international initiative for developing the world's largest radio telescope with a total collecting area of over a million square meters. The scale of the operation, combined with the remote location…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Karel Adámek , Jan Novotný , Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Wesley Armour

This document was submitted as part of the SKA Low Frequency Aperture Array Critical Design Review describing the electromagnetic design of the SKA1-LOW antenna that took place between 2013 and 2018. The SKA1 LOW antenna has been developed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Eloy de Lera Acedo , Hardie Pienaar

Imaging the low-frequency radio Sun is an intrinsically challenging problem. Meter-wavelength solar emission spans angular scales from a few arcminutes to a few degrees. These emissions show temporal and spectral variability on a sub-second…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-22 Devojyoti Kansabanik

Solar radio emission, especially at metre-wavelengths, is well known to vary over small spectral ($\lesssim$100\,kHz) and temporal ($<1$\,s) spans. It is comparatively recently, with the advent of a new generation of instruments, that it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Surajit Mondal , Atul Mohan , Divya Oberoi , John S. Morgan , Leonid Benkevitch , Colin J. Lonsdale , Meagan Crowley , Iver H. Cairns

With the development of 6G technologies, traditional uniform linear arrays (ULAs) and uniform planar arrays (UPAs) can hardly meet the demands of three-dimensional (3D) full-space coverage and high angular resolution. Spherical antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Cunhua Pan , Xianzhe Chen , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

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…

We present the DSA-2000: a world-leading radio survey telescope and multi-messenger discovery engine for the next decade. The array will be the first true radio camera, outputting science-ready image data over the 0.7 - 2 GHz frequency…