PREPSKA UK
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Actis M
(2011)
Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
in Experimental Astronomy
Adámek K
(2016)
A polyphase filter for many-core architectures
in Astronomy and Computing
Chennamangalam J
(2015)
ARTEMIS: A real-time data processing pipeline for the detection of fast transients
Chennamangalam J
(2017)
SETIBURST: A Robotic, Commensal, Realtime Multi-science Backend for the Arecibo Telescope
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
De Gasperin F
(2012)
M 87 at metre wavelengths: the LOFAR picture
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Farnes J
(2018)
Science Pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array
Foster G
(2018)
ALFABURST: a commensal search for fast radio bursts with Arecibo
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harris S. M.
(2013)
Precipitation in Santa Barbara, CA on varying timescales and the relationships with the El Niño Southern Oscillation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, and atmospheric rivers
in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
Hassall T
(2012)
Wide-band simultaneous observations of pulsars: disentangling dispersion measure and profile variations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Karastergiou A
(2015)
Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with artemis, a real-time software backend
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| Description | The work on this grant established the basic design principles of the SKA-Low aperture array telescope. This has fed in to further detailed design work on the SKA. |
| Exploitation Route | These findings are an essential part of the on-going development of aperture array radio telescopes. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| URL | http://www.skads-eu.org |
| Description | Cluster of Research Infrastructure Synergies in Physics |
| Amount | € 12,961,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | EC FP7 283745 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Title | OSKAR |
| Description | The OSKAR package consists of a number of applications for the simulation of astronomical radio interferometers. OSKAR has been designed primarily to produce simulated visibility data from large aperture arrays, such as those envisaged for the SKA. The computation performed by OSKAR applications is accelerated using NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | OSKAR plays a key role in the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) by providing simulation capability to the Science Data Processor (SDP) and Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) consortia. By explicitly evaluating the response from radio sources across the whole sky and allowing for complex station beam effects, OSKAR enables simulations that were previously impossible to perform. Although developed to simulate data from the SKA, OSKAR has been used within a number of other projects in the radio astronomy community. |
| URL | http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/~ska/oskar/ |