Advancing astrophysics with the SKA
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An artist's impression of SKA and ASKAP antennas. |
20 January 2015
A news release from the international SKA Organisation reports scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made.
This is just one of a number of papers being published on the arXiv.org astrophysics pre-print website, as part of a larger series that cover all the science the SKA is expected to contribute to such as pulsars, cosmic magnetism, and the early stages of the Universe.
These papers will be collected in a unique science book, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, which is due to be released in the coming months by the SKA Organisation.
“It’s rewarding to see all these papers being published, thanks to the hard work put in by all the science working groups. The wide range of science covered in them is testimony to the SKA’s potential as a 21st century facility to revolutionise many areas of study in astrophysics, but also in physics, astrochemistry and beyond,” said Robert Braun, who is coordinating the process as the SKA Organisation’s science director.
For more detail about the latest science papers being uploaded to arXiv, please refer to the full release from the SKA Organisation.
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