Andrew Hopkins, Ron Ekers, Carole Jackson, Lawrence Cram, Anne Green, Dick Manchester, Lister Staveley-Smith and Ray Norris, PASA, 16 (2), in press.
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Radio stars - Lawrence Cram
With the sensitivity of the Square Kilometre Array expected to be around 
Jy in a 12 hour integration, the number of stars detectable through their radio emission will increase from the less than one thousand currently catalogued to more than a million. This increase allows a huge range of possible major research programs to be investigated. These programs include
- a census of the population of OB stars, allowing the initial mass function and star formation rate in our galaxy to be constrained. The mass loss rates and mechanisms (particularly the role of electrodynamics) in these stars will be able to be probed,
- observations of lower main sequence stars will enable investigations of magnetic activity and cycles, stellar flares and cosmic ray production and acceleration, as well as dK/dM and T Tauri types,
- pulsations and mass loss in cool supergiants,
- binaries with compact neutron star or black hole components, to provide valuable data on astrophysical jet phenomena as well as high energy astrophysics in general, and
- studies of the proper motions of an unprecedentedly large sample to probe the structure of the Galaxy.
km). In addition, many stellar studies will desire intercontinental VLBI for high angular resolution. Dynamic spectra and coincidence observations will be of interest, and these imply a need for the instrument to have high time resolution and wide-band polarimetry capabilities.
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