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Summary of the ‘Sub-microJansky Radio Sky’ Workshop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Andrew Hopkins ,
Ron Ekers ,
Carole Jackson ,
Lawrence Cram ,
Anne Green ,
Dick Manchester ,
Lister Staveley-Smith  and
Ray Norris
Andrew Hopkins*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ron Ekers
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Carole Jackson
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Lawrence Cram
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Anne Green
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Dick Manchester
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Lister Staveley-Smith
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Ray Norris
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

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The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope is the next generation radio telescope. An international project is currently under way to design and build an instrument having an effective collecting area two orders of magnitude greater than that of any existing telescope. A number of separate studies are presently investigating how to design the Square Kilometre Array to best carry out the kinds of observations desired by the astronomical community. We present a summary of one of these studies, a workshop called The ‘Sub-microJansky Radio Sky’ held at the ATNF, Sydney, on 17 June 1998. This workshop addressed the nature of the radio sky at the very faint flux densities likely to be attainable by the Square Kilometre Array. In particular, each speaker investigated a separate population of radio sources and how the expected appearance of that population at such faint flux densities would dictate how to refine some of the design constraints for the Square Kilometre Array.

Keywords

cosmology: early universeinstrumentation: interferometersmethods: observationalradio continuum: generaltelescopes
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 152 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1999

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