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As of 2023, the Square Kilometre Array will constitute the world's largest radio telescope, offering unprecedented capabilities for a diverse science programme in radio astronomy. At the same time, the SKA will be ideally suited to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , A. Haungs , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder , A. Zilles

The extremely high sensitivity and resolution of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be useful for addressing a wide set of themes relevant for cosmology, in synergy with current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) projects. Many…

We present an update on the NZ-wide advances in the field of Radio Astronomy and Radio Engineering with a particular focus on contributions, not thus reported elsewhere, which hope to either directly or indirectly contribute to New…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 M. Johnston-Hollitt , V. Kitaev , C. P. Hollitt , N. Jones , T. C. Motleno

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

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…

The Square Kilometer Array will be operating at the same time with several new large optical, X-ray and Gamma-ray facilities currently under construction or planned. Fostering synergies in astrophysical research made across different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrei P. Lobanov

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will make ground breaking discoveries in pulsar science. In this chapter we outline the SKA surveys for new pulsars, as well as how we will perform the necessary follow-up timing observations. The SKA's wide…

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,…

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

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of many astrophysical phenomena, but the evolution, structure and origin of magnetic fields are still unresolved problems in physics and astrophysics. When and how were the first fields generated? Are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bryan M. Gaensler

The Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory large mission selected by the European Space Agency (ESA), within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, to address the "Hot and Energetic Universe"…

The study of the Universe on ultra-large scales is one of the major science cases for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be able to probe a vast volume of the cosmos, thus representing a unique instrument, amongst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 S. Camera , A. Raccanelli , P. Bull , D. Bertacca , X. Chen , P. G. Ferreira , M. Kunz , R. Maartens , Y. Mao , M. G. Santos , P. R. Shapiro , M. Viel , Y. Xu

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

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

This lecture briefly reviews the major recent advances in radio astronomy made possible by ultra-deep surveys, reaching microJansky flux density levels. A giant step forward in many fields, including the study of the evolution of the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-20 Gianfranco De Zotti , Matteo Bonato , Zhen-Yi Cai

The unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and broad bandwidth coverage of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio polarimetric observations will allow us to address many long-standing mysteries in cosmic magnetism science. I will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 S. A. Mao

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will offer an unprecedented view onto the early Universe, using interferometric observations of the redshifted 21cm line. The 21cm line probes the thermal and ionization state of the cosmic gas, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Bradley Greig , Ilian Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jonathan Pritchard , Mario G. Santos

Tests of general relativity (GR) are still in their infancy on cosmological scales, but forthcoming experiments promise to greatly improve their precision over a wide range of distance scales and redshifts. One such experiment, the Square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-25 Philip Bull

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

We present detailed science cases that a large fraction of the Indian AGN community is interested in pursuing with the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA). These interests range from understanding low luminosity active galactic nuclei in…