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In order to precisely measure the cosmological parameters and answer the fundamental questions in cosmology, it is necessary to develop new, powerful cosmological probes, in addition to the proposed next-generation optical survey projects.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yidong Xu , Xin Zhang

Future observations of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen survey will become a promising approach to probe the large scale structure of Universe. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 21 cm observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jing-Fei Zhang , Li-Yang Gao , Dong-Ze He , Xin Zhang

In this chapter we provide an overview of the science enabled by radio continuum surveys in the SKA era, focusing on galaxy/galaxy cluster physics and evolution studies, and other relevant continuum science in the >2020 scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 I. Prandoni , N. Seymour

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the first low-frequency instrument with the capability to directly image the structures of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Indeed, deep imaging of the EoR over 5 targeted fields of 20 square degrees…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Qian Zheng , Xiang-Ping Wu , Quan Guo , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Huanyuan Shan , Stefan W. Duchesne , Weitian Li

We study the prospects to measure the cosmic radio dipole by means of continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array. Such a measurement will allow a critical test of the cosmological principle. It will test whether the cosmic rest frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Dominik J. Schwarz , Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Roy Maartens , Thilo M. Siewert

The era of the Square Kilometre Array is almost upon us, and pathfinder telescopes are already in operation. This brief review summarizes our current knowledge of extragalactic radio sources, accumulated through six decades of continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-22 Chris Simpson

We construct forecasts for cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing surveys involving the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Considering matter content, dark energy and modified gravity parameters, we show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Joe Zuntz , Michael L. Brown

The advent of new observational facilities in the last two decades has allowed the rapid discovery and high-resolution optical imaging of many strong lens systems from galaxy to cluster scales, as well as their spectroscopic follow-up.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. V. E. Koopmans , I. W. A. Browne , N. J. Jackson

The MeerKAT (64 x 13.5m dish radio interferometer) is South Africa's precursor instrument for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), exploring dish design, instrumentation, and the characteristics of a Karoo desert site and is projected to be on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. W. Holwerda , S. --L. Blyth , A. J. Baker , the LADUMA team

In this contribution we give a brief overview of the Panoramic Radio Astronomy (PRA) conference held on 2-5 June 2009 in Groningen, the Netherlands. The conference was motivated by the on-going development of a large number of new radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-23 G. Heald , P. Serra

The design and development process for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, the Low Frequency Aperture Array component, was progressed during the SKA pre-construction phase by an international consortium, with the goal of…

Origin of magnetic fields, its structure and effects on dynamical processes in stars to galaxies are not well understood. Lack of a direct probe has hampered its study. The first phase of Square Kilometre Array (SKA-I), will have more than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Subhashis Roy , Sharanya Sur , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Arun Mangalam , TR Seshadri , Hum Chand

One of the theories for the origin of life proposes that a significant fraction of prebiotic material could have arrived to Earth from outer space between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago. This suggests that those prebiotic compounds could…

The possibility of using the SKA for occasional support of scientific space missions should be considered, along with all other science goals, in the design of the array. The benefits of higher data rates from distant spacecraft during high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. L. Jones

In order to deliver the full science potential of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope, several SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) will be required to be constructed in different SKA member countries around the world. These SRCs will provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yogesh Wadadekar , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Abhirup Datta , Surajit Paul , Divya Oberoi

Radio continuum surveys have, in the past, been of restricted use in cosmology. Most studies have concentrated on cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, due to the large sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Matt J. Jarvis , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Michael L. Brown , Sam N. Lindsay , Alvise Raccanelli , Mario Santos , Dominik Schwarz

The next generation interferometric radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the most sensitive and largest radio telescope ever constructed, could greatly contribute to the detection, survey and characterization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-05 Alan Cosimo Ruggeri , Salvatore Capozziello

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

Bodies such as planets, moons, and asteroids in our solar system are the brightest objects in the low-frequency radio astronomy at $\lesssim$ 10 GHz. The low-frequency radio emissions from our solar system bodies exhibit various observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Tomoki Kimura , Yuka Fujii , Hajime Kita , Fuminori Tsuchiya , Hideo Sagawa , the SKA-Japan Planetary Science Team

High angular resolution observations of discs at mm wavelengths (on scales of a few au) are now commonplace, but there is a current lack of a comparable angular resolution for observations at cm wavelengths. This presents a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 John D. Ilee , Cassandra Hall , Catherine Walsh , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , Christophe Pinte , Jason Terry , Tyler Bourke , Melvin Hoare