Welcome to SKA-Japan Workshop 2010 Many thanks to NAOJ and the Foundation of Promotion of Astronomy for financial support
SKA (Square Kilometer Array) Big Project in the Next Decades Freq. range : 0.07 - 10GHz (25GHz) Antenna : Aperture Array, Dishes ( ) Site: Australia or South Africa Characteristics High sensitivity, Wide-band, Wide field, High resolution
Japan SKA consortium Establishment : May 2008 Member : 86 individuals from 26inst. Organizers : H. Nakanishi ( Kagoshima uni. ; chair) Y. Hagiwara (NAOJ) O. Kameya (NAOJ) Aim : To promote Japanese researchers to be involved into the international SKA project Activities : Sharing informations via ML Monthly telecon Science Working group (SWG), Engineering Working Group (EWG) Discussion on collaboration with Industry Hosting Workshop Applying for research budget SWG Magnetic field AGN High-z galaxy Pulsar Astrometry Astro-chemistry SWG Magnetic field AGN High-z galaxy Pulsar Astrometry Astro-chemistry EWG Wideband feed Wideband receiver Wideband backend EWG Wideband feed Wideband receiver Wideband backend Handmade tapered slot antenna ( upper ) mesurement in the rqdio quiet room ( lower ) (Kozuma 2010) ↑spectra obtained with fast A/D converter ← Spectra obtained with heterodyne receiver ( Kawaguchi NAOJ, 2008) 8-50GHz linesurvey towards TMC-1 (Kaifu et al. 2004) 10xBandwidth + spectral fitting ⇒ 3x Increase in Dyncamic range ⇒ Higher sensitivity ・ Distant faint object can be detected ・ Increase of reference source for astrometry Cotton (SKA2009 @ Capetown) Polarization angle over wideband→More accurate rotation NTT Photonics Laboratory InP HBT fast 3bit A/D sampler Key Word UltraWideband Key Word UltraWideband 3C287 3 AGN CTD93 SED (Nagai et al. 2006) Industry forum Collaboration Industry forum Collaboration
SKA Workshop 2008 Date: 1-2 Nov Place: NAOJ Mitaka campus Topic: Combination of science and engineering Talks: Science: Cosmology, re-ionization, nearby and distant galaxies, cluster of galaxy, AGN, Magnetic field, Astrometry, SFR, interstellar chemistry, pulsar, transient, solar system Engineering: Homodyne receiver Status of facilities related to low frequency (Previous workshops were held in 2004 and Only science was focused on. )
Topics: Revealing the Universe with Wide-band cm-Wavelength Observation Aim: To understand the current status of international SKA project To form more international networks Key science and engineering for Japanese community What contribution we can do Next step