Conveners
SKA and Precursors: Session 1
- Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
The challenge facing astronomers in the upcoming decade is not only scientific, but also technological.
A flurry of complex data will be delivered by new telescopes such as SKA ant its precursors and pathfinders, Athena ecc. This data will be difficult to manage with traditional approaches. Data will have to be stored in dedicated facilities, providing the necessary capacity at the highest...
Source finding is one of the most challenging tasks in upcoming radio continuum surveys with SKA precursors, such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The resolution, sensitivity, and sky coverage of such surveys is unprecedented, requiring new features and improvements to be made in existing source finders. Among them,...
New-generation radio telescopes like LOFAR are conducting extensive sky surveys, detecting tens of millions of radio sources. To maximise the scientific value of these surveys, radio source components must be properly associated into physical sources before being cross-matched with their optical/infrared counterparts. We use machine learning to identify those radio sources for which either...
Next generation telescopes such as the SKA will be collecting a substantial amount of radio data in future surveys. The number of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) events are expected to increase as a result of the SKA having a higher sensitivity and resolution; thus increasing the volume of data collected which will consequently need to be analyzed and processed. Therefore, the previous methods of FRB...
Source finding is one of the most challenging tasks in upcoming radio continuum surveys with SKA precursors, such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The resolution, sensitivity, and sky coverage of such surveys is unprecedented, requiring new features and improvements to be made in existing source finders. Among them,...
The challenge facing astronomers in the upcoming decade is not only scientific, but also technological.
A flurry of complex data will be delivered by new telescopes such as SKA ant its precursors and pathfinders, Athena ecc. This data will be difficult to manage with traditional approaches. Data will have to be stored in dedicated facilities, providing the necessary capacity at the...
