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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

This is a design study into the capabilities of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder in performing a full-sky low redshift neutral hydrogen survey, termed WALLABY, and the potential cosmological constraints one can attain from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alan R. Duffy , Adam Moss , Lister Staveley-Smith

We report the detection of repeat bursts from the source of FRB 171019, one of the brightest fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) fly's eye survey. Two bursts from the source were…

The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its…

Transient radio sources are necessarily compact and usually are the locations of explosive or dynamic events, therefore offering unique opportunities for probing fundamental physics and astrophysics. In addition, short-duration transients…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio , M. A. McLaughlin

We show that, in addition to specific science goals, there is a strong case for conducting an all-sky (i.e. the visible 3-pi steradians) SKA continuum survey which does not fit neatly into conventional science cases. History shows that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Ray P. Norris , Kaustuv Basu , Michael Brown , Ettore Carretti , Anna D. Kapinska , Isabella Prandoni , Lawrence Rudnick , Nick Seymour

The extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission has finished the first eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS:1), and detected 10$^4$ galaxy clusters in the western…

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

Combining high time and frequency resolution full-polarisation spectra of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with knowledge of their host galaxy properties provides an opportunity to study both the emission mechanism generating them and the impact of…

We take a sample of 94 ultraluminous, optical quasars from the search of over 14,486 deg^2 by Onken et al. 2022 in the range 4.4<redshift<5.2 and match them against the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) observed on the Australian Square…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-04 Philip Lah , Christopher A. Onken , Ray P. Norris , Francesco D'Eugenio

We present a point source catalogue of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope across a broad frequency band centred at 1295 MHz (L-band) with 12 sub-bands and an angular resolution of 8 arcsec x…

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) for measuring the magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies via Faraday rotation of background polarised sources. [...] We find that about 10 per cent of the sky is covered by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Krause , Paul Alexander , Rosie Bolton , Joern Geisbuesch , David A. Green , Julia Riley

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…

Compact, steep-spectrum radio sources are key tracers of exotic astrophysical objects such as pulsars and high-redshift radio galaxies. All-sky radio surveys at different frequencies, like the TIFR-GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the NRAO VLA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Rajat Shinde , Yogesh Maan , Apurba Bera

Galaxy redshift surveys using optical telescopes have, in combination with other cosmological probes, enabled precision measurements of the nature of dark energy. We show that radio telescopes are rapidly becoming competitive with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Alan R. Duffy

The recently commissioned Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB) on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) provides 2 GHz bandwidth in each frequency and polarisation, significantly increasing the sensitivity of the Array. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-08-27 Elizabeth K. Mahony , Elaine M. Sadler , Scott M. Croom , Ronald D. Ekers , Ilana J. Feain , Tara Murphy

The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the most sensitive and exhaustive search for…

In this paper we investigate how the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) can aid in determining the evolutionary history of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from redshifts z= 0 ->6. Given the vast collecting area of the SKA, it will be sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matt J. Jarvis , Steve Rawlings

The ASKAP-EMU survey is a deep wide-field radio continuum survey designed to cover the entire southern sky and a significant fraction of the northern sky up to $+30^{\circ}$. Here, we report a discovery of a radio relic in the merging…