Title :
Pathfinders and precursors for the SKA
Author :
Cordes, James M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Astron., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
I will discuss pathfinding activities in science, technology development and cyber-infrastructure that are relevant to the Square Kilometre Array. Technology development includes work on dish antennas, wideband dipole arrays, wideband feed antennas, and widefield phased array feeds. Science applications include time-domain exploration, deep continuum imaging, and high-rate surveys. The implied data volumes are growing exponentially and need to be matched with data management and mining systems.
Keywords :
antenna phased arrays; astronomy computing; broadband antennas; data mining; database management systems; dipole antenna arrays; radiotelescopes; SKA; cyberinfrastructure; data management system; data mining system; deep continuum imaging; dish antenna; high rate survey; pathfinder; pathfinding activity; precursor; square kilometre array; technology development; time-domain exploration; wideband dipole array; wideband feed antenna; widefield phased array feed; Antenna feeds; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Dipole antennas; Phased arrays; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5117-3
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051202
