Networking Activity: Connecting Radio Astronomy with wider communities via science

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Networking Activity Connecting Radio Astronomy
with wider communities via science
Currently 0.1 tests of GR at v 0.1 c with
double pulsar Subject of a Recent Meeting
30-31st March in Birmingham.
LIGO/LISA/GAIA/SKA etc synergies
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Cosmology
Real Science to be done alongside SKA simulations
programme but needs very close ties with other
communities
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102
Survey rate
Survey time (yr)
104
106
1 SKA
10 SKA
100 SKA
VLA/GMRT
Year
Time to survey half the sky to a redshift of 2 1
SKA will give SLOAN in HI note exponential
growth of survey rate
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and Astroparticle Physics
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Summary

• Scope joint science activity with widest
  possible communities (optical, e.g. via OPTICON,
  physics communities, particle astrophysics
  communities)
• Co-ordinate ASTRONET input
• Can/should include virtually all RadioNet
  participants plus wider university networks
• Timeline activity ramping up across FP7 as SKA
  development progresses
• Budget