SKA Cosmic Dawn-Epoch of Reionization Science Assessment Workshop
A science assessment workshop focused on the SKA1 Baseline Design and its ability to conduct science observations relevant to Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization was hosted by the SKA Office on 2013 March 26–28. Outcomes available here
| Day 1 (March 26) | |
|---|---|
| Session: Introduction & Science Overview | |
| Welcome and Introduction | Diamond, Lazio |
| Science Overview: H I global signal and power spectrum | Pritchard |
| Science Overview: 21 cm forest | Mack |
| coffee | |
| Science Overview: foregrounds | Abdalla |
| Science Overview: radio recombination lines and foregrounds | Bemmel |
| discussion | Santos (Chair) |
| lunch | |
| Session: Precursor and Pathfinder lessons | |
| PAPER | Aguirre |
| GMRT | Pen |
| LOFAR | de Bruyn |
| coffee | |
| MWA | Briggs |
| LEDA | Greenhill |
| EDGES | Bowman |
| Day 2 (March 27) | |
| Session: Baseline Design | |
| science requirements: Office perspective | Huynh |
| science requirements: community perspective | Koopmans |
| Baseline Design | Dewdney |
| coffee | |
| computational issues | Cornwell |
| discusson of Baseline Design | Mellema, Huynh |
| lunch | |
| Session: Operations Concept | |
| State of Numerical Simulations 1 | Semelin |
| State of Numerical Simulations 2 | Ahn |
| Discussion: expected data products (including intermediate products), ancillary data, meta-data | Cornwell |
| coffee | |
| Path to SKA2 | Webster, Koopmans, Huynh, Dewdney |
| Day 3 (March 28) | |
| Changes to the Baseline Design | Stevenson |
| Summary of workshop | Lazio, Huynh, Koopmans, Pritchard |
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