"Dark Energy Experiments with the Square Kilometer Array"
Whitepaper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force, June 2005
PDF (217kB)
Transients talk given at Modern Radio Universe 2007, Manchester, UK
"Axes of Discovery: the Time Variable Universe"
PPT (7MB) (2 October 2007)
The Square Kilometer Array as a Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope: Widefield Surveys for Transients, Pulsars, and ETI
PDF document (2MB) Version 13.21 (17 October 2007)
Discovery and Understanding with the SKA
PDF document Version 1.02 (06 August 2006)
Question 2: What is the Case for Multiple Fields of View?
PDF document
Work done under NSF/ATI grant for Technology Development for the SKA
PDF document
Pulsar Key Science (Penticton talk by Cordes, Kaspi, Kramer)
Powerpoint document
Technology Development for the US LNSD Concept (Penticton talk by Cordes)
Powerpoint document
2004 Update on the Large-N/Small-D SKA Concept: Technology Development and Demonstrators
(Submitted to the IEMT May 2004)
PDF Document (320 kB)
Draft SKA2004 schedule v4.
Draft Schedule
Minutes of USSKA Consortium Meeting 03 Oct 2003, Pasadena, CA usskac.minutes.10032003.txt
Pasadena minutes (partial) (text, 4 kB)
Proposal Outline Document
TDP Proposal Outline (pdf, 90 kB)
Minutes of Telecon of 09252003
telecon.minutes.09252003.txt (text, 4 kB)
Minutes of Telecon of 09182003
telecon.minutes.09182003.txt (text, 7 kB)
Preliminary Work Effort Weighting for TDP (18 Sep 2003)
tdp.activity.weights.v2.txt (text, 2 kB)
Technology Development Plan Document (distributed 05 Sep 2003, revised 17,21 Sep 2003)
"Outline and Work Areas for a Technology Development Plan to be Proposed to the NSF" (pdf, 95 kB)
Whitepaper Addendum Document submitted to the ISSC (May 2003):
Response Document PDF (929 kB) gzipped postscript (3.38MB)
Response to NSF Review of ATI2002 pdf (196 kB) ps (377 kB)
Old: Draft for Response Document to the ISSC (22 April 2003):
Draft Response Document (includes appendices) (PDF, 377 kB)
Minutes of telecons:
New: Draft Memo on Blind Searching with the SKA (23 April 2003):
Widefield Surveys for Transients, Pulsars and ETI with the SKA (PDF, 714 kB)
Obsolete: Drafts for Response Document (18 April 2003):
Draft Response Document (PDF, 126 kB)
Appendices for Draft Response Document (gzipped PDF, 2.5 MB)
Materials for responding to the EMT and ISAC evaluations of the Whitepaper
(Responses due 31 May 2003)
(See also the 15 June 2002 version of the US Large N-Small D Whitepaper below)
ISAC Report on Whitepapers of June 2002 (link to www.skatelescope.org, Memo 28)
EMT Report on Whitepapers of June 2002 (link to www.skatelescope.org, Memo 27)
Memo on Detection of Single Pulses vs. Periodicity Searches pdf 128kB (05 Apr 2003)
Summary of Multibeaming Discussion at Groningen, 2002 August
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postscript 248kB
pdf 146kB
US SKA Proposal Submitted to NSF 03 September 2002 (ATI program):
(Technology Development for the Square Kilometer Array. II.)
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Project Summary
(postscript file=35kB)
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Project Summary
(pdf file=28kB)
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Project Description (30 pages)
(gzipped postscript file=399kB, expands to 1.4 MB)
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Project Description (30 pages)
(pdf file=300kB)
Large N-Small D Whitepaper Submitted to the ISSC 15 June 2002:
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gzipped PDF file of US Large N-Small D Whitepaper
Version 1.0
(file=2.38MB)
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MS Word .doc file of US Large N-Small D Whitepaper
(file=2MB)
Current revised Strawman proposal as of 12 June '02:
Please comment by 6pm EDT 13 June '02 (Thursday)
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PDF file of strawman proposal
(file=295kB)
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PDF file of strawman proposal with changes tracked
(file=530kB)
Rebudgeting and Status of the NSF/ATI Proposal:
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Funding Status
(From NSF web site 02 June '02; postscript file=80kB)
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Budget Impact Statement for Revised Budget (17 pages)
(submitted 10 April '02; postscript file=184kB)
(Technology Development for the Square Kilometer Array)
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Project Summary
(postscript file=37kB)
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Project Description (55 pages)
(gzipped postscript file=3.7MB, expands to 12 MB)
Galactic Plane plot showing results of simulated SKA pulsar survey (jpeg=309kB) (gzipped postscript=785kB)
Projection onto the Galactic plane of L-band survey pulsars.
larger images: (jpeg=309kB) (gzipped postscript=785kB)
- Open circles: Parkes Multibeam pulsars (from public catalog).
- Black dots: Pulsars from the Princeton Catalog.
- Blue dots: simulated SKA detections (400 MHz, 600 s, 1024 ch).
- Spiral arms: spiral arm definitions used in new electron-density model (NE2001, Cordes & Lazio, astro-ph/0207156; NE2001 papers & code ).
- Assumed birth rate = 1 / (167 yr)
