SKA preconstruction phase at UCL

Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

The Square Kilometre Array will be the largest radio facility every built. It will cost all the member countries 650MEuros to build in its first incarnation. It will be able to provide the most accurate radio images every taken and will touch several areas of physics including Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, Galaxy Evolution, The Cradle of Live, Fundamental tests of General Relativity via Pulsars as well as tests of Cosmic Magnetism.

In order to build such an instrument the participating countries are funding a large effort to design such an array by outlining algorithms and pipelines which will be sufficient to solve the data reduction issues which will be faced by this enormous project. The aim of this project will be to contribute to this design phase and perform the necessary tasks which will enable the SKA to start its construction phase in 2016.

Planned Impact

The Square Kilometre Array will be a massive project with numerous links to industry. Our group will contribute to the PROT.ISP work package which will establish links and hardware requirements for the Square Kilometre array. The impact of such project will be massive as it will require close links with the computing industry for data analysis and correlations of the raw radio data.

Publications

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Abdalla, F.B. Determining Neutrino Properties with the SKA in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation and Astroparticle Physics on the Pathway to the SKA

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Agarwal S (2014) pkann - II. A non-linear matter power spectrum interpolator developed using artificial neural networks in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Asad K (2015) Polarization leakage in epoch of reionization windows - I. Low Frequency Array observations of the 3C196 field in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Asad K (2016) Polarization leakage in epoch of reionization windows - II. Primary beam model and direction-dependent calibration in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chan K. C. (2018) BAO from angular clustering: optimization and mitigation of theoretical systematics in ArXiv e-prints

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Chang C (2016) Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chapman E (2016) The effect of foreground mitigation strategy on EoR window recovery in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chapman E (2013) The scale of the problem: recovering images of reionization with Generalized Morphological Component Analysis in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Ciardi B (2015) Simulating the 21 cm forest detectable with LOFAR and SKA in the spectra of high- z GRBs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Clerkin L (2015) A prescription for galaxy biasing evolution as a nuisance parameter in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
Description The methods proposed to be outlined in this award to define the construction and data analysis pipeline will be reported as outputs to the project and delivered.
Exploitation Route the award is not completed but objectives are in route. They will be passed onto the SKA office via documentation and prototyping of code.
Sectors Other
 
Description The SKA will be the largest ever build radio telescope this is a large source of inspiration across generations and will excite and encourage many to learn more about science and radio astronomy. Furthermore, many contracts will eventually be drawn up for industry to carry out the construction phase which will be beneficial directly to the economy.
First Year Of Impact 2012
Sector Other
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Economic