Location

Australia
Mileura station
Argentina
CASLEO, Pampa de la Bola
China
Guiyang, Ghizhou province
South Africa
Karoo site

Design

SKA core, Focal Plane Arrays and remote stations
(2008 animation)
©Xilostudios

Focal Plane Arrays and small dishes
(2008 animation)
©Xilostudios
Focal Plane Arrays + small dishes
(2008 animation)
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©Xilostudios
SKA remote stations
(2008 animation)
©Xilostudios

Small dishes + Focal Plane Arrays
©Xilostudios

Small dishes + Focal Plane Arrays
©Xilostudios
Small dishes + Focal Plane Arrays
©Xilostudios
SKA stations
Artist impression
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©ASTRON
Small dishes with solid surfaces - ATA
Small dishes with solid surfaces - ATA
Small dishes with solid surfaces
- ATA (SETI Institute)
Small dishes with Mesh surfaces
A 12 metre Preloaded Parabolic Dish
Aperture plane Array
Antenna beamformer
Aperture plane Array
Multiple independant field(s) of view

SKA reference design
(Design study by SKA Project Office and XILOSTUDIOS)

Aperture plane Array
THEA tiles, with the radome (cover) removed
©W.J Kleppe
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)

Proposed SKA configuration in South Africa
(Bernard Fanaroff and TerraForma/SuW)
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 and SuW)

Network of pulsar clocks to detect gravitational waves
(David Champion and SuW)
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)

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)

Protoplanetary disk
(simulation by Michael Kramer)
The origin and evolution of Cosmic Magnetism
Optical image of a spiral galaxy (Hubble Heritage / NASA / STScl)
 

 

Cygnus A observed by the VLA
       

 

 

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