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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston

The VDFS comprises the system to pipeline process and archive the data from infrared observations taken by both the WFCAM instrument on UKIRT and the forthcoming VISTA telescope. These include the largest near-IR surveys to date, such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-02 Nicholas Cross , Nigel Hambly , Ross Collins , Mike Read , Eckhard Sutorius

The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area $\sim$7500 m$^2$), system temperature ($T<20$K), high…

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

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

CHARIS is an IFS designed for imaging and spectroscopy of disks and sub-stellar companions. To improve ease of use and efficiency of science production, we present progress on a fully-automated backend for CHARIS. This Automated Data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 Taylor L. Tobin , Jeffery Chilcote , Timothy Brandt , Thayne Currie , Tyler Groff , Julien Lozi , Olivier Guyon

The construction of the KAT-7 array in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape in South Africa was intended primarily as an engineering prototype for technologies and techniques applicable to the MeerKAT telescope. This paper looks at the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 A. R. Foley , T. Alberts , R P. Armstrong , A. Barta , E. F. Bauermeister , H. Bester , S. Blose , R. S. Booth , D. H. Botha , S. J. Buchner , C. Carignan , T. Cheetham , K. Cloete , G. Coreejes , R. C. Crida , S. D. Cross , F. Curtolo , A. Dikgale , M. S. de Villiers , L. J. du Toit , S. W. P. Esterhuyse , B. Fanaroff , R. P. Fender , M. Fijalkowski , D. Fourie , B. Frank , D. George , P. Gibbs , S. Goedhart , J. Grobbelaar , S. C. Gumede , P. Herselman , K. M. Hess , N. Hoek , J. Horrell , J. L. Jonas , J. D. B. Jordaan , R. Julie , F. Kapp , P. Kotzé , T. Kusel , A. Langman , R. Lehmensiek , D. Liebenberg , I. J. V. Liebenberg , A. Loots , R. T. Lord , D. M. Lucero , J. Ludick , P. Macfarlane , M. Madlavana , L. Magnus , C. Magozore , J. A. Malan , J. R. Manley , L. Marais , N. Marais , S. J. Marais , M. Maree , A. Martens , O. Mokone , V. Moss , S. Mthembu , W. New , G. D. Nicholson , P. C. van Niekerk , N. Oozeer , S. S. Passmoor , A. Peens-Hough , A. B. Pińska , P. Prozesky , S. Rajan , S. Ratcliffe , R. Renil , L. L. Richter , D. Rosekrans , A. Rust , A. C. Schröder , L. C. Schwardt , S. Seranyane , M. Serylak , D. S. Shepherd , R. Siebrits , L. Sofeya , R. Spann , R. Springbok , P. S. Swart , Venkatasubramani L. Thondikulam , I. P. Theron , A. Tiplady , O. Toruvanda , S. Tshongweni , L. van den Heever , C. van der Merwe , R. van Rooyen , S. Wakhaba , A. L. Walker , M. Welz , L. Williams , M. Wolleben , P. A. Woudt , N. J. Young , J. T. L. Zwart

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 seven-dish KAT-7 array was built as an engineering test-bed for the 64-dish Karoo Array Telescope, known as MeerKAT, which is the South African precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). KAT-7 and MeerKAT are located close to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-16 Claude Carignan

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).…

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…

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

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international cooperation project to build the largest radio telescope worldwide. Data processing is one of the biggest challenges of building the SKA telescope. As a distributed execution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Ying Mei , Shoulin Wei , Feng Wang , Chen Wu , Rodrigo Tobar , Mohsim Shaikh , Hui Deng , Wei Dai , Bo Liang , Andreas Wicenec

MeerKATHI is the current development name for a radio-interferometric data reduction pipeline, assembled by an international collaboration. We create a publicly available end-to-end continuum- and line imaging pipeline for MeerKAT and other…

Galactic plane radio surveys play a key role in improving our understanding of a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. Performing such a survey using the latest interferometric telescopes produces large data rates necessitating a shift…

[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…

Recently, a full-scale data processing workflow of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Phase 1 was successfully executed on the world's fastest supercomputer Summit, proving that scientists have the expertise, software tools and computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-13 Ruonan Wang , Andreas Wicenec , Tao An