Instituto de Astrofísica de AndalucíaTED4SKA
Grant TED2021-130231B-I00 funded by
Astronomy and technology have progressed in intimate connection. Scientific requirements have pressed for increasingly challenging and innovative technological solutions. The main challenge of Radio Astronomy for this decade will be to build the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the largest and most sensitive radio-interferometer,
SKA-Link
SKA-Link
PAST EVENTS
SKA-Link kick-off meeting – 3rd & 4th April 2017
SKA-Link is a 2-year project (01 Jan 17 – 31 Dec 18) led by the AMIGA team, that belongs to the i-LINK programme (Programa CSIC Conexión Internacional “i-LINK”). This call has the objective of promoting international scientific collaborations with foreign institutions.
The AMIGA team aims to create a deep understanding of the best technical strategies for successfully exploiting the immense flow of science-ready data that SKA will generate.
SKA-coop
SKA-coop
SKA-COOP is a project funded by CSIC (“I-COOP+” program ). This project is led by AMIGA group and gathers participants from different South African institutions: the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), Rhodes University (RU), Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive (IDIA)
SKA-COOP is a collaboration between members from XXX. SKA-COOP participants strongly believe that beyond producing transformational science, SKA must have a socio-economic effect in Africa with a deep involvement of a new generation of of highly qualified scientists and engineers.
RedSKA
¿Qué es la RedSKA?
La RedSKA es la “Red temática para la participación científica y tecnológica española en el Square Kilometre Array”, una red de investigación financiada por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU) durante 2020-2021 (RED2018-102587-T). Está formada por 19 investigadores en representación de 15 centros de investigación con participación en actividades de SKA, y está coordinada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC).
En junio de 2018 España se convirtió en miembro de la SKA Organization,
ESCAPE
European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures
ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures. ID SEP-210506816) aims to address the Open Science challenges shared by ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net, EST, ELT, HL-LHC, FAIR) as well as other pan-European research infrastructures (CERN, ESO, JIVE) in astronomy and particle physics. ESCAPE actions will be focused on developing soylutions for the large data sets handled by the ESFRI facilities.
AMIGA7
AMIGA7
On June 1st Spain became the 11th member of the Square Kilometre Array Organization, culminating several years of work by the Spanish community. SKA will transform our understanding of the Universe and our scientists and engineers will be part of it. It is now crucial to take forward this effort to get positioned both to play a major role in the scientific exploitation of the SKA, and to maintain the leadership of the developments performed during the design phase and compete for a maximum technological return in SKA Construction.
AMIGA6
Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies
Secular evolution is thought to be a driving factor behind many aspects of galaxy morphology and structure. The challenge is to identify which properties are due to internal secular evolution and which are linked to formative evolution or external influences. Understanding internal mechanisms requires study of samples of isolated galaxies avoiding loose definitions like “the field”, and comparison with matching samples of galaxies from well-defined denser environments.
AMIGA4GAS
Federation of a distributed infrastructure
The efficient exploitation of the Exabyte–a-day data rates, such as those expected to be generated by the SKA, represents the biggest challenge for ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in the world to date. SKA pathfinders will reach the Terabyte-a-day scale, remarkably increasing the leap in the volume and complexity of present astronomical archives. These volumes preclude standard storage and analysis approaches, and need analysis and data mining tasks to live within data repositories,
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AENEAS
Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA
The scientific potential of the forthcoming SKA radio telescope is simply unprecedented and represents one of the highest priorities for the international scientific community in the coming decade. By the same token, the large scale, rate, and complexity of data the SKA will generate present challenges in data management, computing, and networking that are similarly world-leading. Like the SKA itself, a coordinated, global effort will be required to solve these challenges and fully realize the ground-breaking scientific potential of the project (see www.skatelescope.org).
Calibration of LOFAR ELAIS-N1 data in the Amazon cloud
Calibration of LOFAR ELAIS-N1 data in the Amazon cloud
The International LOFAR Telescope is a next-generation software-driven telescope operating in the poorly explored 30–240 MHz frequency range. With an unprecedented field of view, and multiple beams, LOFAR is opening up a completely new phase of radio astrophysics, as well as being both a scientific and technical pathfinder instrument for the SKA.
However, the calibration of LOFAR data presents several challenges:
- a) the effects of the ionosphere introduce systematic errors that can not be overcome with the standard calibration pipelines and prevent continued integration to reach deep fields,
» Read more about: Calibration of LOFAR ELAIS-N1 data in the Amazon cloud »