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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

Radio observations with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) provide the agility, sensitivity, and spectral coverage to trace the evolution of the size, shape and spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants from the earliest moments on. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Galama , A. G. De Bruyn

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, requiring the…

Having an accurate calibration method is crucial for any scientific research done by a radio telescope. The next generation radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a large number of receivers which will produce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-03 Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi , Alle-Jan van der Veen , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Distributed calibration based on consensus optimization is a computationally efficient method to calibrate large radio interferometers such as LOFAR and SKA. Calibrating along multiple directions in the sky and removing the bright…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-29 Sarod Yatawatta

The "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA) is a large international radio telescope project characterised, as suggested by its name, by a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre, and consisting of several interferometric arrays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-29 F. Acero , J. -T. Acquaviva , R. Adam , N. Aghanim , M. Allen , M. Alves , R. Ammanouil , R. Ansari , A. Araudo , E. Armengaud , B. Ascaso , E. Athanassoula , D. Aubert , S. Babak , A. Bacmann , A. Banday , K. Barriere , F. Bellossi , J. -P. Bernard , M. G. Bernardini , M. Béthermin , E. Blanc , L. Blanchet , J. Bobin , S. Boissier , C. Boisson , A. Boselli , A. Bosma , S. Bosse , S. Bottinelli , F. Boulanger , R. Boyer , A. Bracco , C. Briand , M. Bucher , V. Buat , L. Cambresy , M. Caillat , J. -M. Casandjian , E. Caux , S. Célestin , M. Cerruti , P. Charlot , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chaty , N. Christensen , L. Ciesla , N. Clerc , J. Cohen-Tanugi , I. Cognard , F. Combes , B. Comis , S. Corbel , B. Cordier , M. Coriat , R. Courtin , H. Courtois , B. Da Silva , E. Daddi , R. Dallier , E. Dartois , K. Demyk , J. -M. Denis , L. Denis , A. Djannati-Ataï , J. -F. Donati , M. Douspis , W. van Driel , M. N. El Korso , E. Falgarone , A. Fantina , T. Farges , A. Ferrari , C. Ferrari , K. Ferrière , R. Flamary , N. Gac , S. Gauffre , F. Genova , J. Girard , I. Grenier , J. -M. Griessmeier , P. Guillard , L. Guillemot , F. Gulminelli , A. Gusdorf , E. Habart , F. Hammer , P. Hennebelle , F. Herpin , O. Hervet , A. Hughes , O. Ilbert , M. Janvier , E. Josselin , A. Julier , C. Lachaud , G. Lagache , R. Lallement , S. Lambert , L. Lamy , M. Langer , P. Larzabal , G. Lavaux , T. Le Bertre , O. Le Fèvre , A. Le Tiec , B. Lefloch , M. Lehnert , M. Lemoine-Goumard , F. Levrier , M. Limousin , D. Lis , A. López-Sepulcre , J. Macias-Perez , C. Magneville , A. Marcowith , J. Margueron , G. Marquette , D. Marshall , L. Martin , D. Mary , S. Masson , S. Maurogordato , C. Mazauric , Y. Mellier , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , L. Montier , F. Mottez , D. Mourard , N. Nesvadba , J. -F. Nezan , P. Noterdaeme , J. Novak , P. Ocvirk , M. Oertel , X. Olive , V. Ollier , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , M. Pandey-Pommier , Y. Pennec , M. Pérault , C. Peroux , P. Petit , J. Pétri , A. Petiteau , J. Pety , G. W. Pratt , M. Puech , B. Quertier , E. Raffin , S. Rakotozafy Harison , S. Rawson , M. Renaud , B. Revenu , C. Richard , J. Richard , F. Rincon , I. Ristorcelli , J. Rodriguez , M. Schultheis , C. Schimd , B. Semelin , H. Sol , J. -L. Starck , M. Tagger , C. Tasse , G. Theureau , S. Torchinsky , C. Vastel , S. D. Vergani , L. Verstraete , X. Vigouroux , N. Vilmer , J. -P. Vilotte , N. Webb , N. Ysard , P. Zarka

We investigate the capabilities of various stages of the SKA to perform world-leading weak gravitational lensing surveys. We outline a way forward to develop the tools needed for pursuing weak lensing in the radio band. We identify the key…

The high sensitivity of the new generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will allow cosmological weak lensing measurements at radio wavelengths that are competitive with optical surveys. We present an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla

The Square Kilometer Array will initiate a new era of radio astronomy by allowing 3D imaging of the Universe during Cosmic Dawn and Reionization. Modern machine learning is crucial to analyse the highly structured and complex signal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Ayodele Ore , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn

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

This paper deals with the calibration of the analogue chains of a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) phased aperture array station, using embedded element patterns (one per antenna in the array, thus accounting for the full effects of mutual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Josef Borg , Alessio Magro , Kristian Zarb Adami , Eloy de lera Acedo , Adrian Sutinjo , Daniel Ung

Observationally, weak lensing has been served so far by optical surveys due to the much larger number densities of background galaxies achieved, which is typically by two to three orders of magnitude compared to radio. However, the high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-18 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla

In this work, we investigate what role the redshift drift data of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will play in the cosmological parameter estimation in the future. To test the constraint capability of the redshift drift data of SKA-only, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Yan Liu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

This report was submitted as part of the SKA Low Frequency Aperture Array Critical Design Review describing the design of the SKA1-LOW station that took place between 2013 and 2018. The SKA1 LOW field station is inscribed in a circular area…

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

New telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will push into a new sensitivity regime and expose systematics, such as direction-dependent effects, that could previously be ignored. Current methods for handling such systematics rely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-22 Michelle Lochner , Iniyan Natarajan , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Oleg Smirnov , Bruce A. Bassett , Nadeem Oozeer , Martin Kunz

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) faces unprecedented technological challenges due to the vast scale and complexity of its data. This paper provides an overview of research by the AMIGA group to address these computing and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Julián Garrido , Susana Sánchez , Edgar Ribeiro João , Roger Ianjamasimanana , Manuel Parra , Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular,…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the premier instrument to study radiation at centimetre and metre wavelengths from the cosmos, and in particular hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe. The SKA will probe the dawn of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Minh Huynh , Joseph Lazio

We test the bandpass smoothness performance of two prototype Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SKA1-Low log-periodic dipole antennas, the SKALA2 and SKALA3 (`SKA Log-periodic Antenna'), and the current dipole from the Murchison Widefield Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Cathryn M. Trott , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Randall B. Wayth , Nicolas Fagnoni , Adrian T. Sutinjo , Brett Wakley , Chris Ivan B. Punzalan