What is the difference between SKA and todays radio telescopes?
Covering frequencies of 0.1–25 GHz, it will make a revolutionary break with today’s radio telescopes. It will: • have a collecting area of almost one million square metres, giving it 50 times the sensitivity of today’s best radio interferometer; • be the first aperture synthesis telescope with multiple independent fields of view (up to 100 at one time); • integrate computing hardware and software on a massive scale, in a way that best captures the benefits of these exponentially developing technologies.
