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The Square Kilometre Array (Proceedings Paper)

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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes, Larry M. Stepp, Editors, 62672D

Date: 28 June 2006

Paper Abstract

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the future centimeter- and meter-wavelength telescope with a sensitivity about 50 times higher than present instruments. Its Key Science Projects are (a) Astrobiology including planetary formation within protoplanetary disks; (b) Testing theories of gravitation using an array of pulsars to search for gravitational waves and relativistic binaries to probe the strong-field regime; (c) The origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism, both within the Galaxy and in intergalactic
DOI: 10.1117/12.673512
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