SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Pulsars

Name: SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Pulsars
Start: 2013-07-17T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-07-18T18:00:00+01:00
Location: SKA Office

17 Jul 2013, 08:00 → 18 Jul 2013, 18:00 Europe/London

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

Steve Rawlings Boardroom

SKA Office

Description

A science assessment workshop focused on the SKA1 Baseline Design and its ability to conduct science observations relevant to Pulsar Surveys and Timing was hosted by the SKA Office on 2013 July 17–18.

Wednesday, 17 July
- Wed, 17 Jul
- Thu, 18 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Welcome and Introduction
  
  Ben Stappers & Robert Braun Introduction/Purpose/Welcome/
  
  Introductions
  Dewdney - General Introduction to the Baseline design and Motivation
  Turner - Detailed non-imaging processing numbers and motivation/choices
  
  Presentations
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Pulsar Science, the SKA and the DRM
  
  Kramer - From the Science to the DRM
  Lazio and Huynh - SKA Phase 1 Design Reference Mission
  
  Presentations
- 13:30 → 16:30
  SKA LOW Sessions
  
  To be discussed:
  a) Simulations of survey returns.
  b) What frequency would be optimal for us?
  c) Is it sufficiently centrally concentrated?
  d) How many beams for searching?
  e) What about Timing and other pulsar studies?
  f) How many beams for timing?
  g) What fraction of the sky do we need/want to be able to see?
  Presentations
  
  5.VanLeeuwen.pdf
  
  6.AAlow.pdf
  
  7.Hessels.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:30
  
  SKA Survey Sessions
  
  To be discussed:
  a) how might we use it?
  b) discussion of continuum follow up observing model (Johnston with input from Hobbs/Cordes and others)
Thursday, 18 July
- Wed, 17 Jul
- Thu, 18 Jul
- 09:00 → 12:30
  SKA Mid - Astrometry and Searching
  
  SKA Mid - Astrometry - (Deller)
  
  SKA Mid Searching
  a) What modifications to layout?
  b) Frequencies and bandwidths?
  c) How many frequency channels?
  d) Dedispersion?
  e) Acceleration Searches? how? Time or Frequency domain/best?
  f) single pulse detection strategies
  g) Real-time searching, including candidate identification.
  h) Sky visibility (i.e. max hour angle).
  Presentations
  
  10.Eatough.pdf
  
  11.Champion.pdf
  
  12.McLaughlin.pdf
  
  8.Deller.pdf
  
  9.Theureau.pdf
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  SKA Mid Timing
  
  a) How many beams required?
  b) Frequencies and bandwidths?
  c) Polarisation calibration requirements?
  d) How many dishes to include in phasing up?
  e) Real-time phasing not currently specified, pressure on resources
  to have correlation and beam-forming in parallel.
  f) Real-time cyclic spectroscopy
- 15:30 → 16:30
  
  Overall System requirements - Archiving, Data Products, Clocks
  
  Presentations
- 16:30 → 17:30
  
  Summary, wrap up, planning on baseline change requests