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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

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

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,…

We describe a scalable distributed imaging algorithm framework for next-generation radio telescopes, managing the Fourier transform from apertures to sky (or vice versa) with a focus on minimising memory load, data transfers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter Wortmann , James Kent , Bojan Nikolic

We present a detailed discussion of the implementation strategies for a recently developed $w$-stacking $w$-projection hybrid algorithm used to reconstruct wide-field interferometric images. In particular, we discuss the methodology used to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 L. Pratley , M. Johnston-Hollitt , J. D. McEwen

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

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope distinguished by a superb sensitivity due to its large aperture (about one square kilometre) and advanced instrumentation. It will cover a broad range of observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 J. G. Bij de Vaate , L. I. Gurvits , S. V. Pogrebenko , C. G. M. van t Klooster

As Part I of a paper series showcasing a new imaging framework, we consider the recently proposed unconstrained Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (uSARA) optimisation algorithm for wide-field, high-resolution, high-dynamic range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Amanda G. Wilber , Arwa Dabbech , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

As the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will lead the next generation of radio astronomy. The feats of engineering required to construct the telescope array will be matched only by the techniques…

In the context of next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, the efficient processing of large-scale datasets is extremely important. Convex optimisation tasks under the compressive sensing framework have recently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Audrey Repetti , Jason D. McEwen , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Yves Wiaux

Stacking as a tool for studying objects that are not individually detected is becoming popular even for radio interferometric data, and will be widely used in the SKA era. Stacking is typically done using imaged data rather than directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-26 K. K. Knudsen , L. Lindroos , W. Vlemmings , J. Conway , I. Marti-Vidal

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

Modern image formation algorithms in radio interferometry rely on repeated applications of the operator {\Phi} modelling the measurement process and its adjoint {Phi^\dagger} to enforce consistency with the acquired data, specifically via…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), with the aim of achieving a collecting area of one square kilometre, will be the world's largest radio telescope. A scientific collaboration between 12 countries (with more to join), it will consist of one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 Cristina García-Miró , Antonio Chrysostomou , Zsolt Paragi , Ilse van Bemmel

Next-generation radio arrays, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders, will open up new avenues for exciting transient science at radio wavelengths. Their innovative designs, comprising a large number of small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. D. R. Bhat , J. N. Chengalur , P. J. Cox , Y. Gupta , J. Prasad , J. Roy , M. Bailes , S. Burke-Spolaor , S. S. Kudale , W. van Straten

The standard wide-field imaging technique, the $w$-projection, allows correction for wide-fields of view for non-coplanar radio interferometric arrays. However, calculating exact corrections for each measurement has not been possible due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Jason D. McEwen

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

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

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Prina Patel , Ian Harrison , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Abdalla , David Bacon , Michael L. Brown , Ian Heywood , Matt Jarvis , Oleg Smirnov

[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…