The Square Kilometre Array Export

@article{citeulike:5897161, abstract = {The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is intended as the next-generation radio telescope and will address fundamental questions in astrophysics, physics, and astrobiology. The international science community has developed a set of Key Science Programs: (1) Emerging from the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization, (2) Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, and Dark Energy, (3) The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism, (4) Strong Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes, and (5) The Cradle of Life/Astrobiology. In addition, there is a design philosophy of "exploration of the unknown," in which the objective is to keep the design as flexible as possible to allow for future discoveries. Both a significant challenge and opportunity for the SKA is to obtain a significantly wider field of view than has been obtained with radio telescopes traditionally. Given the breadth of coverage of cosmic magnetism and galaxy evolution in this conference, I highlight some of the opportunities that an expanded field of view will present for other Key Science Programs.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Lazio, Joseph}, citeulike-article-id = {5897161}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0632}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.0632}, day = {4}, eprint = {0910.0632}, keywords = {astrobio, bh, cosmology, dark\_ages, darkenergy, evolution, galaxies, reionization, review, ska, technics}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-06 17:40:35}, priority = {2}, title = {The Square Kilometre Array}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0632}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5897161 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5897161 N2 - The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is intended as the next-generation radio telescope and will address fundamental questions in astrophysics, physics, and astrobiology. The international science community has developed a set of Key Science Programs: (1) Emerging from the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization, (2) Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, and Dark Energy, (3) The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism, (4) Strong Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes, and (5) The Cradle of Life/Astrobiology. In addition, there is a design philosophy of "exploration of the unknown," in which the objective is to keep the design as flexible as possible to allow for future discoveries. Both a significant challenge and opportunity for the SKA is to obtain a significantly wider field of view than has been obtained with radio telescopes traditionally. Given the breadth of coverage of cosmic magnetism and galaxy evolution in this conference, I highlight some of the opportunities that an expanded field of view will present for other Key Science Programs. TI - The Square Kilometre Array KW - astrobio KW - bh KW - cosmology KW - dark_ages KW - darkenergy KW - evolution KW - galaxies KW - reionization KW - review KW - ska KW - technics AU - Lazio, Joseph PY - 2009/Oct/04/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0632 ER -