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Mapping out the first billion years using the 21-cm line with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will revolutionize our understanding of the cosmic dawn, reionization and the galaxies that drove these milestones. However, synergies with other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Andrei Mesinger , Benedetta Ciardi , James E. Davies , Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Valentina D'Odorico

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope designed to operate between 70MHz and 10GHz. Due to this large bandwidth, the SKA will be built out of different collectors, namely antennas and dishes to cover the frequency range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela , Babak E. Cohanim

The SKA at mid and low frequencies will be constructed in two distinct phases, the first being a subset of the second. This document defines the main scientific goals and baseline technical concept for the SKA Phase 1 (SKA_1). The major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-18 M. A. Garrett , J. M. Cordes , D. R. Deboer , J. L. Jonas , S. Rawlings , R. T. Schilizzi

Contemporary cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments typically have observing bands covering the range 20 - 800 GHz. Certain science goals, including the detection of $\mu$-type distortions to the CMB spectrum and the characterization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Jens Chluba , Mathieu Remazeilles , Keith Grainge

It is an exceptionally opportune time for Astrophysics when a number of next-generation mega-instruments are poised to observe the universe across the entire electromagnetic spectrum with unprecedented data quality. The Square Kilometre…

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

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

Karabo is a versatile Python-based software framework simplifying research with radio astronomy data. It bundles existing software packages into a coherent whole to improve the ease of use of its components. Karabo includes useful…

Optical spectra of galaxies and quasars from large cosmological surveys are used to measure redshifts and infer distances. They are also rich with information on the intrinsic properties of these astronomical objects. However, their…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. The high accuracy, wide-field and large size imaging significantly challenge the construction of the Science Data Processor (SDP) of SKA.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yangfan Xie , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Ying-He Celeste Lu , Gabriella Hodosan , Vladislav Stolyarov , Oleg Smirnov , Xiaofeng Li , Tim Cornwell

The current generation of air shower radio arrays has demonstrated that the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with high accuracy. These experiments are now contributing to mass composition studies in the…

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, standard methods in radio interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

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

A classical problem in computer vision is to infer a 3D scene representation from few images that can be used to render novel views at interactive rates. Previous work focuses on reconstructing pre-defined 3D representations, e.g. textured…

Over the past few years two of the largest and highest fidelity experiments conceived have been approved for construction: Euclid is an ESA M-Class mission that will map three-quarters of the extra galactic sky with Hubble Space Telescope…

The MeerKAT radio telescope array, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and eventually the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will usher in a remarkable new era in astronomy, with thousands of transients being discovered and transmitted to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 John A. Booth , Michael Shara , Steven M. Crawford , Lisa A. Crause

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau

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

Recent developments in machine learning and signal processing have resulted in many new techniques that are able to effectively capture the intrinsic yet complex properties of hyperspectral imagery. Tasks ranging from anomaly detection to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ilya Kavalerov , Weilin Li , Wojciech Czaja , Rama Chellappa

Backed by advances in digital electronics, signal processing, computation, and storage technologies, aperture arrays, which had strongly influenced the design of telescopes in the early years of radio astronomy, have made a comeback. Amid…