The Square Kilometre Array

By R. Schilizzi. Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006

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The SKA will have a collecting area of up to one million square metres spread over at least 3000 km, providing a sensitivity 50 times higher than the Expanded Very Large Array, and an instantaneous field of view (FoV) of at least several tens of square degrees and possibly 250 square degrees. The SKA science impact will be widely felt in astroparticle physics and cosmology, fundamental physics, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, solar system science and astrobiology. In this paper, we describe the main features of the SKA, paying attention to the design activities around the world, and outline plans for the final design and phased implementation of the telescope.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Gravitational-wave sensitivity curves (2014, background): “The next great advancement in radio astronomy shall come with the completion of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA; Dewdney et al 2009).”
• Probing primordial non-Gaussianity with SKA galaxy redshift surveys: a fully relativistic analysis (2014, methodology): “We refer to (Dewdney et al. 2009) for a description of the set-ups.”
• EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe (2011, background): “The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed major internationally funded radio telescope (Dewdney et al. 2009)whose construction is expected to be completed in 2022.”
• Semianalytic calculation of gravitational wave spectrum nonlinearly induced from primordial curvature perturbations (2018, background): “iming array constraints from EPTA [53], NANOGrav [54], and PPTA [55]. The pink lines show sensitivity curves [56] of various future GW observations reproduced from Ref. [57]. The observations are SKA [58], eLISA [59], LISA [60], BBO [61], DECIGO [62], Einstein Telescope [63], Cosmic Explorer [64], a”
• The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project (2006, background): “, 2014 for a review of PTA research on FAST), MeerKAT in South Africa and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA; Lazio, 2013).”
• Radio Properties of Tidal Disruption Events (2020, background): “ evolution of radio TDEs at low frequencies, and the challenge of distinguishing TDEs from background variable AGN). However, both ASKAP and MeerKAT are precursors to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA; Dewdney et al. 2009), which is expected to include high-frequency sensitivity up to at least 15 GHz.”