The Square Kilometre Array
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells the story of its development – a story of transformational science, innovative engineering, and global collaboration. Its journey has been long and complex...
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| author | Schilizzi, Richard T. Ekers, Ronald D. Dewdney, Peter E. Crosby, Philip |
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| description | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells the story of its development – a story of transformational science, innovative engineering, and global collaboration. Its journey has been long and complex, reflecting the many issues faced in creating an affordable design, choosing a site, and developing a viable global organisation starting from a simple working group of far-sighted and persistent astronomers in 1993. The book begins with the emergence of the SKA concept and the first working group. It traces the development of global scientific and engineering collaborations and ever more comprehensive governance structures for the SKA, the involvement and roles of funding agencies and governments, and the long, political site selection process. This occurred alongside efforts to overcome technical barriers and the difficult process of selecting technology. It follows these themes up to the point in 2012 when the project had just transitioned from a collaboration to a legal entity and the dual site decision was made – a pivotal moment when it was clear the SKA arrays would be built. The book is based on the authors’ personal experience at the leading edge of the project over many years, as well as access to hitherto unpublished material from project archives, interviews, and presentations from many of the key players at a specially convened conference. It has a Foreword written by John Womersley, former Chair of the Agencies SKA Group and SKA Organisation Board. The book is intended for an audience ranging from funding agencies and governments involved in major research infrastructures, to historians of science and professional researchers studying mega-projects, to the astronomy and physics communities in general and interested lay readers. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1424752024-07-23T13:46:37Z The Square Kilometre Array Schilizzi, Richard T. Ekers, Ronald D. Dewdney, Peter E. Crosby, Philip History of Radio astronomy Square Kilometre Array SKA mega-science project world’s most sensitive radio telescope global scientific collaboration big data in astronomy observational cosmology radio imaging thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PG Astronomy, space and time::PGG Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment and methods thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PG Astronomy, space and time::PGK Cosmology and the universe The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world. This open access book tells the story of its development – a story of transformational science, innovative engineering, and global collaboration. Its journey has been long and complex, reflecting the many issues faced in creating an affordable design, choosing a site, and developing a viable global organisation starting from a simple working group of far-sighted and persistent astronomers in 1993. The book begins with the emergence of the SKA concept and the first working group. It traces the development of global scientific and engineering collaborations and ever more comprehensive governance structures for the SKA, the involvement and roles of funding agencies and governments, and the long, political site selection process. This occurred alongside efforts to overcome technical barriers and the difficult process of selecting technology. It follows these themes up to the point in 2012 when the project had just transitioned from a collaboration to a legal entity and the dual site decision was made – a pivotal moment when it was clear the SKA arrays would be built. The book is based on the authors’ personal experience at the leading edge of the project over many years, as well as access to hitherto unpublished material from project archives, interviews, and presentations from many of the key players at a specially convened conference. It has a Foreword written by John Womersley, former Chair of the Agencies SKA Group and SKA Organisation Board. The book is intended for an audience ranging from funding agencies and governments involved in major research infrastructures, to historians of science and professional researchers studying mega-projects, to the astronomy and physics communities in general and interested lay readers. 2024-07-23T13:46:35Z 2024-07-23T13:46:35Z 2024-07-16T18:50:31Z 2024 book ONIX_20240716_9783031513749_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92303 9783031513749 9783031513732 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142475 eng Historical & Cultural Astronomy open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92303/1/978-3-031-51374-9.pdf Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-51374-9 10.1007/978-3-031-51374-9 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 0c5ec2e4-df46-48af-b1c3-6b1eee09855d 9783031513749 9783031513732 Springer International Publishing 614 Cham [...] open access |
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