Author: Rees, N.P.
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FRAPL01 Status of the Square Kilometre Array 1982
 
  • J. Santander-Vela, L. Pivetta, N.P. Rees
    SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
 
  The Square Kilo­me­tre Array (SKA) is a global pro­ject to build a multi-pur­pose radio tele­scope that will play a major role in an­swer­ing key ques­tions in mod­ern as­tro­physics and cos­mol­ogy. It will be one of a small num­ber of cor­ner­stone ob­ser­va­to­ries around the world that will pro­vide as­tro­physi­cists and cos­mol­o­gists with a trans­for­ma­tional view of the Uni­verse. Two major goals of the SKA is to study the his­tory and role of neu­tral Hy­dro­gen in the Uni­verse from the dark ages to the pre­sent-day, and to em­ploy pul­sars as probes of fun­da­men­tal physics. Since 2008, the global radio as­tron­omy com­mu­nity has been en­gaged in the de­vel­op­ment of the SKA and is now near­ing the end of the 'Pre-Con­struc­tion' phase. This talk will give an overview of the cur­rent sta­tus of the SKA and the plans for con­struc­tion, fo­cus­ing on the com­put­ing and soft­ware as­pects of the pro­ject.  
video icon Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/WuQ1ut4R_Fc  
slides icon Slides FRAPL01 [74.131 MB]  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-FRAPL01  
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