J04: New Generation Radio Telescopes (1)

Tuesday, August 19  08:00-09:20,  Room #12

There are currently a large number of new and upgraded radio astronomy facilities being designed, built, commissioned and operated. These instruments span the entire radio spectrum, and they all push boundaries in observation parameter space. An incomplete list is: SKA, ALMA, LOFAR, JVLA, MeerKAT, ASKAP, MWA, PAPER, LWA, CHIME, Spektr-R. Many of these instruments are pathfinders and precursors for the SKA. This session will highlight the technical and scientific accomplishments of these new facilities.

8:00  J04.1   POLISH LOFAR - A LOW FREQUENCY RADIO INTERFEROMETER - POLISH LOFAR CONSORTIUM (POLFAR)

K. K. Otmianowska-Mazur

Astronomical Obserwatory Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

8:20  J04.2   THE CONCEPT of SPACE ULTRA LONG WAVELENGTH ARRAY

L. Chen^1,2, M. Zhang², Y. Yan^1,2, M. Huang²

¹Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
²National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

8:40  J04.3   SKA MID FREQUENCY APERTURE ARRAYS: TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ULTIMATE SURVEY MACHINE

J. G. Bij de Vaate¹, S. A. Torchinsky², A. J. Faulkner³, D. Zhang⁴, A. W. Gunst¹, P. Benthem¹, I. M. van Bemmel¹, G. Kenfack²

¹R&D, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
²Station de radioastronomie, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
³Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
⁴School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

9:00  J04.4   THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY COMPUTING CHALLENGES AND THE DOME RESEARCH APPROACH: INTERMEDIATE RESULTS

A. J. Boonstra¹, T. Engbersen²

¹R&D, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
²IBM Research Laboratory, IBM, Zurich, Switzerland