Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century

Keith Grainge; Bassem Alachkar; Shaun  Amy; Domingos  Barbosa; Murali  Bommineni; Paul  Boven; Ralph Braddock; John Davis; Praveen  Diwakar; Vishal  Francis; Robert Gabrielczyk; Romeo  Gamatham; Simon Garrington; Tim  Gibbon; David  Gozzard; Simon  Gregory; Yicheng Guo; Yashwant Gupta; Jill Hammond; David  Hindley; Uli  Horn; Richard Hughes-Jones; Michelle Hussey; Samantha Lloyd; Siju  Mammen; Simeon  Miteff; Vivek  Mohile; Jaco  Muller; SwamI  Natarajan; John  Nicholls; Richard Oberland; Michael Pearson; Tim Rayner; Sascha  Schediwy; Richard Schilizzi; Supriya  Sharma; Simon  Stobie; Mark Tearle; Bo Wang; Bruce  Wallace; Lijun Wang; Rajesh  Warange; Richard Whitaker; Althea Wilkinson; Neil Wingfield

doi:10.1134/S1063772917040059

Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century

Keith Grainge, Bassem Alachkar, Shaun Amy, Domingos Barbosa , Murali Bommineni, Paul Boven, Ralph Braddock, John Davis, Praveen Diwakar, Vishal Francis, Robert Gabrielczyk, Romeo Gamatham, Simon Garrington, Tim Gibbon, David Gozzard, Simon Gregory, Yicheng Guo, Yashwant Gupta, Jill Hammond, David HindleyUli Horn, Richard Hughes-Jones, Michelle Hussey, Samantha Lloyd, Siju Mammen, Simeon Miteff, Vivek Mohile, Jaco Muller, SwamI Natarajan, John Nicholls, Richard Oberland, Michael Pearson, Tim Rayner, Sascha Schediwy , Richard Schilizzi, Supriya Sharma, Simon Stobie , Mark Tearle, Bo Wang, Bruce Wallace , Lijun Wang, Rajesh Warange , Richard Whitaker, Althea Wilkinson, Neil Wingfield

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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. It will address fundamental unanswered questions about our Universe including how the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang, how dark energy is accelerating the expansion of theUniverse, the role of magnetism in the cosmos, the nature of gravity, and the search for life beyond Earth. This project envisages the construction of 133 15-m antennas in South Africa and 131072 log-periodic antennas in Australia, together with the associated infrastructure in the two desert sites. In addition, the SKA is an exemplar Big Data project, with data rates of over 10 Tbps being transported from the telescope to HPC/HTC facilities.

Original language	English
Journal	Astronomy Reports
Volume	61
Issue number	4
Early online date	23 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772917040059
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Establishing and directing the World’s most significant radio astronomy infrastructure investment: the Square Kilometre Array
Andrew Faulkner (Participant), Simon Garrington (Participant), Keith Grainge (Participant), Michael Kramer (Participant), Anna Scaife (Participant), Richard Schilizzi (Participant), Ralph Spencer (Participant), Benjamin Stappers (Participant) & Peter Wilkinson (Participant)
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Grainge, K., Alachkar, B., Amy, S., Barbosa , D., Bommineni, M., Boven, P., Braddock, R., Davis, J., Diwakar, P., Francis, V., Gabrielczyk, R., Gamatham, R., Garrington, S., Gibbon, T., Gozzard, D., Gregory, S., Guo, Y., Gupta, Y., Hammond, J., ... Wingfield, N. (2017). Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century. Astronomy Reports, 61(4). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772917040059

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Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century

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