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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 Epoch of Reionization (EoR) represents a milestone in the evolution of our Universe. Star-forming galaxies that existed during the EoR likely emitted a significant fraction (~5-40%) of their bolometric luminosity as Lyman Alpha (Lya)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark Dijkstra

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…

The line of sight direction in the redshifted 21-cm signal coming from the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization is quite unique in many ways compared to any other cosmological signal. Different unique effects, such as the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-28 Suman Majumdar , Kanan K. Datta , Raghunath Ghara , Rajesh Mondal , T. Roy Choudhury , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sk. Saiyad Ali , Abhirup Datta

21cm Intensity Mapping (IM) has been proposed about 15 years ago as a cost effective method to carry out cosmological surveys and to map the 3D distribution of matter in the universe, over a large range of post EoR redshifts, from z=0 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-01 Reza Ansari

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), when it becomes functional, is expected to enrich neutron star (NS) catalogues by at least an order of magnitude over their current state. This includes the discovery of new NS objects leading to better…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Mihir Arjunwadkar , Akanksha Kashikar , Manjari Bagchi

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

Observations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) have the potential to answer long-standing questions of astrophysical interest regarding the nature of the first luminous sources and their effects on the intergalactic medium (IGM). We…

The Square Kilometre Array will be a revolutionary instrument for the study of gas in the distant Universe. SKA1 will have sufficient sensitivity to detect and image atomic 21 cm HI in individual galaxies at significant cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-19 J. Wagg , E. Da Cunha , C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , M. Aravena , I. Heywood , J. Hodge , E. Murphy , D. Riechers , M. Sargent , R. Wang

One of the most important parameters in characterizing the Epoch of Reionization, the escape fraction of ionizing photons, $f_\mathrm{esc}$, remains unconstrained both observationally and theoretically. With recent work highlighting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-16 Jacob Seiler , Anne Hutter , Manodeep Sinha , Darren Croton

Understanding the formation and evolution of the first stars and galaxies represents one of the most exciting frontiers in astronomy. Since the universe was filled with neutral hydrogen at early times, the most promising method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Rennan Barkana

In this paper, we review the Billion Galaxy Survey that will be carried out at radio--optical wavelengths to micro--nanoJansky levels with the telescopes of the next decades. These are the Low-Frequency Array, the Square Kilometer Array and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Windhorst , S. H. Cohen , N. P. Hathi , R. A. Jansen , R. E. Ryan

The neutral hydrogen (HI) and its 21 cm line are promising probes to the reionization process of the intergalactic medium (IGM). To use this probe effectively, it is imperative to have a good understanding on how the neutral hydrogen traces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Wenxiao Xu , Yidong Xu , Bin Yue , Ilian T Iliev , Hy Trac , Liang Gao , Xuelei Chen

The cosmic dark ages and the epoch of reionization, during which the first generations of stars and galaxies formed, are among the most compelling frontiers of extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. Here we describe an exciting new probe…

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

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…

Tomography of redshifted 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen using Fourier synthesis telescopes is a promising tool to study the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Limiting the confusion from Galactic and Extragalactic foregrounds is critical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Harish Vedantham , N. Udaya Shankar , Ravi Subrahmanyan

Quasars at cosmic dawn provide powerful probes of the formation and growth of the earliest supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the universe, their connections to galaxy and structure formation, and the evolution of the intergalactic medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-15 Xiaohui Fan , Eduardo Banados , Robert A. Simcoe

This paper is the first in a series of papers describing the impact of antenna instrumental artefacts on the 21-cm cosmology experiments to be carried out by the low frequency instrument (SKA1-LOW) of the Square Kilometre Array telescope…

Radio observations with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) provide the agility, sensitivity, and spectral coverage to trace the evolution of the size, shape and spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants from the earliest moments on. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Galama , A. G. De Bruyn