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The
SKA Science conference 2021,
“A precursor’s view of the SKA sky”,
is being held this week as a fully virtual event.
The meeting includes plenary talks as well as splinter
meetings organised by the SKA science working groups.
In the lead up to the SKA, many new groundbreaking radio astronomy
telescopes have been established in the last 15 years. These
facilities, known as SKA pathfinder and precursor telescopes, are part
of a global effort to design and build ever-more sensitive instruments
to provide further insights into the radio sky and grow new scientific
and technical communities. These telescopes are allowing astronomers
to develop improved techniques and explore new phenomena.
In the year that marks the establishment of the SKA Observatory, as
well as the start of SKA construction activities, this meeting brings the
focus to science, with the new and exciting results that are being
produced by the SKA precursors and pathfinders and their implications
for the SKA.
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