SKA Cosmic Dawn-Epoch of Reionization Science Assessment Workshop

26 Mar 2013, 08:00 → 28 Mar 2013, 18:00 Europe/London

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

A science assessment workshop focused on the SKA1 Baseline Design and its ability to conduct science observations relevant to Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization was hosted by the SKA Office on 2013 March 26–28.

Working group summary final report

Workshop Agenda AssessmentWorkshopSchedule.pdf

Tuesday, 26 March

Introduction & Science Overview

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Dr Joseph Lazio (SPDO), Prof. Philip Diamond (SKA Organisation)

2 Science Overview: H I global signal and power spectrum

Speaker: Pritchard

Slides 01_-_Pritchard-SKA_Low-lr-version.pdf

3 Science Overview: 21 cm forest

Speaker: Mack

Slides 02_-_Mack_21cmForest.pdf

4 Science Overview: foregrounds

Speaker: Abdalla

Slides 03_-_Abdalla_SKA_Mar13.pdf

5 Science Overview: radio recombination lines and foregrounds

Speaker: van Bemmel

6 Discussion

Speaker: Santos (Chair)

Session: Precursor and Pathfinder lessons

7 PAPER

Speaker: Aguirre

Slides 05_-_Aguirre_SKA1_Low_PAPER_March2013.pdf

8 GMRT

Speaker: Chang/Pen

Slides 06_-_Pen_gmrt.pdf

9 LOFAR

Speaker: de Bruyn

Slides 07_-_deBruyn-SKA-AAlow-lr-version.pdf

10 MWA

Speaker: Briggs

Slides 08_-_Briggs_MWA_lessons_March2013-lr-version.pdf

11 LEDA

Speaker: Greenhill

12 EDGES

Speaker: Bowman

Slides 10_-_Bowman_EDGES.pdf

Wednesday, 27 March

Baseline Design

13 Science requirements: Office perspective

Speaker: Huynh

Slides 11_-_Huynh_Science-Reqs-and-DRM.pdf

14 Science requirements: Community perspective

Speaker: Koopmans

Slides 12_-_Koopmans-SKA-Low-Science-Requirements.pdf

15 Baseline Design

Speaker: Dewdney

Slides 13_-_Dewdney_SKA_EoR_Sc_Assess_Baseline_Design_2013jan30RevB.pdf

16 Computational issues

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 14_-_Cornwell-SKA_Low_scienceassessmentcomp.pdf

17 Discusson of Baseline Design

Speaker: Mellema, Huynh

Operations Concept

18 State of Numerical Simulations 1

Speaker: Semelin

Slides 15_-_Semelin-SKA_Low.pdf

19 State of Numerical Simulations 2

Speaker: Ahn

Slides 16_-_Ahn_SKA.pdf

20 Discussion: expected data products (including intermediate products), ancillary data, meta-data

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 17_-_Cornwell-SKA_Lowscienceassessmentdataproducts.pdf

21 Path to SKA2

Speaker: Webster, Koopmans, Huynh, Dewdney

22 Discussion

Thursday, 28 March

Changes and Summary

23 Changes to the Baseline Design

Speaker: Stevenson

Slides 19_-_Stevenson-Change.pdf

24 Summary of workshop

Speaker: Lazio, Huynh, Koopmans, Pritchard

25 Document preparation (with coffee break when needed)

26 Presentation of summary document