SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Magnetism

Jan 22, 2014, 9:00 AM → Jan 24, 2014, 1:00 PM UTC

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

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

Working group summary final report

Wednesday, January 22

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Overall Science Perspective

Speaker: Robert Braun

Slides 01_RobertBraun.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Baseline Design

Speaker: Peter Dewdney

Slides 02_PeterDewdney.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Work in progress of the cosmic magnetism SWG

Speaker: Federica Govoni

Slides 03_FedericaGovoni.pdf

11:15 AM → 11:45 AM Rotation Measure Synthesis [REMOTE]

Speaker: George Heald

Slides 04_GeorgeHeald.pdf

11:45 AM → 12:15 PM Observing cosmic magnetism with MWA [REMOTE]

Speaker: Emil Lenc

Slides 05_EmilLenc.pdf

12:15 PM → 12:45 PM Technical issues with broadband polarimetry

Speaker: Dominic Schnitzeler

Slides 06_DominicSchnitzeler.pdf

12:45 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Assessing SKA Polarimetry Requirements

Speaker: Tobia Carozzi

Slides 07_TobiaCarozzi.pdf

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Observing cosmic magnetism with LOFAR and lessons for the SKA

Speaker: Reiner Beck

Slides 08_ReinerBeck.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Discussion on SKA1-low and cosmic magnetism techniques

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Tea

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Cosmic Magnetism science with KAT7

Speaker: Anna Scaife

Slides 09_AnnaScaife.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Polarization Studies of Extragalactic Relativistic Jets from Supermassive Black Holes

Speaker: Ivan Agudo

Slides 10_IvanAgudo.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion on SKA1-mid and SKA1-survey

Thursday, January 23

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Probing RMs due to magnetic fields in the cosmic web [REMOTE]

Speaker: Takuya Akahori

Slides 11_TakuyaAkahori.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Surveying the magnetic field of the Milky Way using SKA1

Speaker: Dominic Schnitzeler

Slides 12_DominicSchnitzeler.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Polarization of cluster radio halos with upcoming radio interferometers

Speaker: Federica Govoni

Slides 13_FedericaGovoni.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Magnetic field in galaxy clusters and intergalactic filaments: results from the VLA, LOFAR and SKA perspectives

Speaker: Annalisa Bonafede

Slides 14_AnnalisaBonafede.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Using extended sources to probing cluster magnetic fields: BT galaxies and WATs

Speaker: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Slides 15_MelanieJohnstonHollitt.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Discussion

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Magnetic fields in evolving spiral galaxies and their observation with the SKA

Speaker: Reiner Beck

Slides Beck_Jodrell_Bank_Evolution_2014.pdf

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Faraday dispersion function of galaxies predicted from galaxy simulations

Speaker: Keitaro Takahashi

Slides 17_KeitaroTakahashi.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Discussion

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Tea

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Evolution of galaxies - a magnetic twist [REMOTE]

Speaker: Jeroen Stil

Slides 18_JeroenStil.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM What polarized sources will we see at microJy levels? [REMOTE]

Speaker: Larry Rudnick

Slides 19_LarryRudnick.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion

7:15 PM → 9:15 PM Dinner @ the George & Dragon in Holmes Chapel

Friday, January 24

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Preparation of summary document

Slides 20_Discussion.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Preparation of summary document and concluding remarks

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch (& Finish)