Year in the Life of SKA

The SKADS Virtual Telescope

A major goal of the SKADS project is to use the simulation tools developed by the project in order to make a realistic end-to-end simulation of observations, and ultimately to get a picture of a fully operational SKA (see SKADS Simulated Skies).

A first call for proposals was announced in February 2007 resulting in significant response from the community. These proposals are available here, and serve the basis for the continuing exercise to quantify the technological requirements of the SKA based on the science goals described in detailed proposals such as these.

SKADS Virtual Telescope Proposals

Cradle of Life

	Solar Physics Proposal J. Khan, T. Carozzi, H.S. Hudson, L. Fletcher, E.P. Kontar, A.L. MacKinnon, G. Woan
	Spacecraft Telemetry Reception with the SKADS Virtual Telescope D.L. Jones
	Grain Growth and Pre-biotic Molecules in Proto-Planetary Discs M. Hoare, G. Fuller
	Detection Magnetospheric Emissions from Extrasolar Planets with the SKADS Virtual Telescope J. Lazio
	SETI Search with the SKADS Virtual Telescope - Stage C A. Penny, T. O’Brien, I. Morrison

Strong Field Tests of Gravity using Pulsars

	Pulsar Surveys I: An All-Sky Survey R. Smits, M. Kramer, B. Stappers, J. van Leeuwen, J. Cordes, A. Possenti
	Pulsar Surveys II: Pulsars in the Galactic Centre R. Smits, M. Kramer, B. Stappers, J. van Leeuwen, J. Cordes, J. Lazio, A. Possenti
	Pulsar Surveys III: A Galactic Plane Survey R. Smits, M. Kramer, B. Stappers, J. van Leeuwen, J. Cordes, A. Possenti
	Pulsar Survey IV: Globular Cluster Pulsars S. Ransom, M. Kramer
	Timing relativistic binary pulsars M. Kramer, I. Stairs, I. Cognard, N. D’Amico, G. Janssen, A. Jessner, A. Lyne, A. Possenti, R. Smits, B. Stappers, G. Theureau, J. van Leeuwen
	Pulsar Timing Array Project G. Hobbs, J. Verbiest, R. Manchester, A. Lommen, M. Kramer, I. Cognard, N. D’Amico, G. Janssen, F. Jenet, A. Jessner, A. Lyne, A. Possenti, R. Smits, B. Stappers, G. Theureau

Extreme High Density Matter

	Exploring long-term phenomena in radio emitting neutron stars M. Kramer, R. Smits, A. Lyne, G. Janssen
	Pulsar emission physics A. Karastergiou, B. Stappers, J. van Leeuwen, R. Smits, M. Kramer

Structure of the Galaxy

Angular power spectra of Galactic HI with the SBPs D.A. Green

Galaxy Formation and Structure

	Local Galaxies observed with a 10% SKA E. Brinks, T. Oosterloo, M. Zwaan
	High Redshift Molecules: Emission and Absorption F. Combes, T. Wiklind, P. Salome, R. Booth

Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism

Determining the Cosmological Evolution of Cluster Magnetic Fields M. Krause, R. Bolton, P. Alexander, J. Riley, D. Green, S. Gull

Large Scale Structure

	The SKADS Virtual Telescope Deep Field M.J. Jarvis, R. Boomsma, S. Rawlings, P. Serra, R. Wilman, T. van der Hulst
	HI Absorption with the SKADS Virtual Telescope R.J. Wilman, M.J. Jarvis, R. Morganti, N. Kanekar, S.L. Morris, B.T. Jannuzi, R. Davé
	Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect observations with the SVT M.E. Jones, A.C. Taylor, S. Kay, R. Battye, M. Peel, A. Scaife, K. Grainge
	SKA weak lensing survey C. Blake, D. Bacon, C. Fluke, T. Kitching, L.A. Miller, C. Power, R. Wilman
	Strong gravitational lensing N.J. Jackson

Ultra High Energy Phenomena and the Transient Sky

	Detection of Cosmic Rays at Ultra-High Energies with Phase I of the Square Kilometre Array O. Scholten, H. Falcke
	Lunar Cherenkov Technique for UHE Particle Astronomy using the SKA R.J. Protheroe, J. Álvarez-Muñiz, C.W. James, R.D. Ekers, R. McFadden, T. Stanev, E. Zas
	High-energy astrophysics the SVT: radio observations in conjunction with the GLAST mission G. Cotter, A.C. Readhead
	SKADS Virtual Telescope Transients Proposal T. Carozzi, M. Hendry, I.S. Heng, M. Kramer, B. Stappers, P. Sutton, P. Zarka