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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) .tif (16MB) - ©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 .tif (20MB) .psd (30MB) ©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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