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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) would be the world's largest radio telescope with eventually over a square kilometer of collecting area. However, there are enormous challenges in its data processing. The using of modern distributed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shoulin Wei , Kaida Luo , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei

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

We present the results of our investigations into options for the computing platform for the imaging pipeline in the CHILES project, an ultra-deep HI pathfinder for the era of the Square Kilometre Array. CHILES pushes the current computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Richard Dodson , Kevin Vinsen , Chen Wu , Attila Popping , Martin Meyer , Andreas Wicenec , Peter Quinn , Jacqueline van Gorkom , Emmanuel Momjian

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the ones currently under construction for the SKA project, allows for observing the Universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. To process the enormous amounts of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 S. Wang , S. Mignot , S. Prunet , L. Di Mascolo , M. Spinelli , A. Ferrari

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the world's largest radio telescope, will enhance and boost a large number of science projects, including the search for pulsars. The frequency domain acceleration search is an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Haomiao Wang , Prabu Thiagaraj , Oliver Sinnen

The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 R. J. Lyon , J. M. Brooke , J. D. Knowles , B. W. Stappers

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

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio interferometer of unprecedented scale that will revolutionize low-frequency radio astronomy when completed. In particular, one of its core science drivers is the systematic mapping of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Nichole Barry , Gianni Bernardi , Bradley Greig , Nicholas Kern , Florent Mertens

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be both the largest radio telescope ever constructed and the largest Big Data project in the known Universe. The first phase of the project will generate on the order of 5 zettabytes of data per year. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 Jamie Farnes , Ben Mort , Fred Dulwich , Stef Salvini , Wes Armour

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. Its immense amount of visibility data poses a considerable challenge to the subsequent processing by the science data processor (SDP).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Qing-Wen Deng , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Jing Li , Oleg Smirnov , Shao-Guang Guo

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 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

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, to realise these goals significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , 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…

The ambitious scientific goals of SKA require a matching capability for calibration of instrumental and atmospheric propagation contributions as functions of time, frequency and position. The development of novel calibration algorithms to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 María J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

[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…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will form the largest radio telescope ever built and such a huge instrument in the desert poses enormous engineering and logistic challenges. Algorithmic and architectural breakthroughs are needed. Data is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-17 Orhan Ocal , Paul Hurley , Giovanni Cherubini , Sanaz Kazemi

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA, https://skatelescope.org) will be the world's largest radio telescope. SKA Science Data Challenges will be regularly issued to the community as part of the science preparatory activities. The purpose of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna Bonaldi , Robert Braun

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
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