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SKA Dish
(2010 animation)
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SKA Dish
(2010 animation)
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SKA Dishes
(2010 animation)
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Dense Aperture Array
(2010 animation)
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Dense Aperture Array
(2010 animation) |
Sparse Aperture Array
(2010 animation) |
Sparse Aperture Array
(2010 animation) |
SKA - three central cores of Dishes, Dense AAs and Sparse AAs
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A map of the SKA sensitivity at a particular radio wave frequency based on the position of receivers on the ground. The image shows the SKA looking at the sky directly over head. Red indicates highest sensitivity.
(iAntConfig SKA SA) |
A map of the SKA sensitivity at a particular radio wave frequency based on the position of receivers on the ground. The image shows the SKA looking at the sky directly over head. Red indicates highest sensitivity.
(iAntConfig SKA SA) |
A map of the SKA sensitivity at a particular radio wave frequency based on the position of receivers on the ground. The image shows the SKA looking at the sky directly over head. Red indicates highest sensitivity.
(iAntConfig SKA SA) |
A map of the SKA sensitivity at a particular radio wave frequency based on the position of receivers on the ground. The image shows the SKA looking at the sky directly over head. Red indicates highest sensitivity.
(iAntConfig SKA SA) |
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Small dishes with solid
surfaces - ATA
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Small dishes with solid surfaces
- ATA
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Small dishes with solid surfaces
- ATA (SETI Institute) |
Small dishes with Mesh surfaces
A 12 metre Preloaded Parabolic Dish |
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Aperture
plane Array
Antenna beamformer |
Aperture plane Array
Multiple independant field(s) of view |
EMBRACE |
EMBRACE |
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15m dishes
with focal plane radio cameras
- NTD (Chris Fluke, Swinburne Univ.
of Technology, Hawthorn/Australia) |
SKA configuration |
Man-made radio
frequency
I nterference from 80 to 2000 MHz in a big city (top),
small city (middle) and on a SKA site (bottom)
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Proposed SKA configuration in South Africa
(Bernard Fanaroff and TerraForma/SuW) |
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Evolution
of the Universe
(SuW) |
Probing the Dark Ages
Simulations of the HI universe evolving with time (from left to right).
Credit: S. Furlanetto et al 2003, MNRAS |
Known pulsars
(yellow) and pulsars expected with the SKA (blue).
The red cross
indicates the Galactic centre, the red circle the position of our
Sun. The grid
distance is 5 kpc or 16.000 light years (simulation by Jim Cordes
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Network of pulsar clocks to detect gravitational waves
(David Champion and SuW) |
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Strong field tests
of gravity using pulsars and black holes
(Michael Kramer and SuW) |
Observed (not simulated)
radio emission (contours) and magnetic field vectors in the spiral
galaxy M51
(Andrew Fletcher/Rainer Beck, SuW and Hubble Heritage Team,
STScI/AURA)
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Polarized radio
sources behind the Andromeda galaxy M31 expected with the SKA
(simulation by Bryan Gaensler). The colours are overlays from three
observations:
Red: optical emission from M31, blue: radio emission from M31, green:
polarized radio
emission from M31 (Rainer Beck)
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Protoplanetary disk
(simulation by Michael Kramer) |
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The origin and evolution
of Cosmic Magnetism
Optical image of a spiral galaxy (Hubble Heritage / NASA / STScl) |
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Cygnus A observed
by the VLA |
