SKA Science Assessment Workshop - “Low Redshift” Neutral Hydrogen

23 Sept 2013, 08:00 → 25 Sept 2013, 14:00 Europe/London

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

Agenda ska1ManSep2013Program.pdf

Link to video archive https://polyrss.skatelescope.org/portal/views/main.jsf

Working group summary Final report

Monday, 23 September

09:00 → 10:45 Baseline Design and Requirements

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Baseline Design

Speaker: Dewdney

Slides 01.Dewdney.pdf

10:00 Science Requirements: SKA Office Perspective

Speaker: Huynh

Slides 02.Huynh.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:45 → 11:15 Tea/coffee

11:15 → 12:30 Array Configuration

11:15 Overall Perspective of HI Science and Array Configuration

Speaker: Oosterloo

Slides 03.Oosterloo.pdf

11:30 Performance of Array Configuration

Speaker: Braun

Slides 04.Braun.pdf

11:45 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Array Configuration (continued)

14:00 Simulations of Array Configurations

Speaker: Popping

Slides 05.Popping.pdf

14:15 Simulations of Array Configurations

Speaker: Carignan

Slides 06.Carignan.pdf

14:30 High-z HI Requirements for Spatial Resolution

Speaker: Baker

Slides 07.Baker.pdf

14:45 Requirements for Spatial Resolution for Nearby Galaxies

Speaker: de Blok

Slides 08.DeBlok.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Tea/Coffee

15:30 → 16:30 Array Configuration (continued)

15:30 Discussion on SKA1 Array Configuration and Alternatives

Tuesday, 24 September

09:00 → 10:00 Intensity Mapping Perspective

09:00 Intensity Mapping Perspective

Speaker: Tzu-Ching Chang

Slides 09.Chang.pdf

09:30 Discussion

10:00 → 10:45 HI Absorption Perspective

10:00 HI Absorption with SKA1

Speaker: Zwaan

Slides 10.Zwaan.pdf

10:15 HI Absorption with SKA1

Speaker: Gupta (remote)

Slides 11.Gupta.pdf

10:30 Discussion

10:45 → 11:15 Tea/Coffee

11:15 → 12:30 Frequency Band Selection & Spectral Resolution

11:15 Optimum Band Definition from the Survey Point of View

Speaker: Baker

Slides 12.Baker.pdf

11:30 Possible Impact of RFI

Speaker: Oosterloo

11:45 Possible Impact of RFI

Speaker: Staveley-Smith

Slides 13.Staveley-Smith.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 SKA1 Top Level Science Requirements Draft Document

14:00 Rationale

Speaker: Braun

14:15 Discussion

15:00 → 15:30 Tea/Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Computation, Archive, User model

15:30 Computation Issues

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 14.Cornwell.pdf

16:00 Other Related Issues

Speaker: Oosterloo

16:15 Discussion

17:00 → 18:00 Galactic HI

17:00 Requirements for Galactic HI Studies

Speaker: McClure-Griffiths (remote)

Slides 15.McClure-Griffiths.pdf

17:15 Discussion

Wednesday, 25 September

09:00 → 10:00 Summary of Workshop

10:00 → 11:00 Document Preparation

11:00 → 11:30 Tea/Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Presentation and Discussion of Summary Document

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch