Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Astrophysics Colloquium

Title：How to observe your favourite source(s) with the SKA telescopes?

Speaker：Sarrvesh Sridhar（SKAO）

Time：3:00 pm Dec. 12th (Thursday)

Tencent Meeting：42915400486 password: 6360

Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Abstract：

The SKA Low and Mid telescopes are next-generation flagship radio astronomical facilities that will revolutionize radio astronomy in the coming decades. Both telescopes are complex instruments that can be configured to fit a wide range of science goals, with support for multiple subarrays, substations, and station beams. In this talk, I will provide a detailed overview of the technical capabilities of the SKA telescopes and introduce several user-facing tools (like the sensitivity calculator and subarray simulation tool) that SKAO has recently released to the community. I will finish with an overview of the telescope construction timeline and when we expect science observations to start.

CV：

Sarrvesh Sridhar is an Operations Scientist based at the Global Headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) in the UK. Sarrvesh did his PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he studied “Large-scale magnetic fields and non-thermal processes in starforming galaxies” using the LOFAR and the Westerbork radio interferometers. He then worked as a LOFAR Telescope Scientist at ASTRON before moving to the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, to work on the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey. Since 2022, he has been based at SKAO, working in the Science Operations group.

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