With such a major investment secured there is no stopping it,»
says SKA Director General Philip Diamond in a statement.
«Science is the winner,»
says SKA board chairman John Womersley.
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Fanaroff
said that
SKA was committed to societal engagement and included indigenous knowledge from the start, and he used the Shared Sky exhibition as example.
«We kind of took them by surprise but we did our homework very well,»
says Takalani Nemaungani, an engineer at South Africa's Department of Science and Technology who led his country's
SKA lobbying campaign.
«
SKA will be the premier project of the coming decades, completely revolutionizing radio astronomy,»
said Ted Williams, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory.
«
SKA is helping us to change perspectives on Africa as a destination for high - tech opportunities and industry,» Nemaungani
says.
Rather than providing funding directly,
SKA's member states are likely contribute equipment and expertise, and Diamond
says that they have already contributed $ 90 million to the pre-construction phase.
«To nail it, you'd need this next generation of telescopes like the
SKA,»
says van de Weygaert.
By building on existing pilot projects in both countries, Womersley
says that
SKA will be made even more powerful.
If the new technique works, then in that regard «it does somewhat obviate the need for an
SKA,»
says Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.
Chang
says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (
SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.
«ASKAP is a really important scientific project in its own right but it will be more important when it is part of the
SKA, which will be one of the most important scientific projects of the 21st century,»
says Chris Evans, Australia's minister for science.
He
says that
SKA's member countries (Canada, China, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) will spend the next 6 months working out how to incorporate the precursor arrays into
SKA and fine - tuning the cost implications of having two sites.
«The members agreed this was the best way forward,»
says Michiel van Haarlem, interim director general of the
SKA Organization.
Professor Meurer
said that the next generation of radio telescopes, like the soon - to - be-built Square Kilometre Array (
SKA), will generate enormous amounts of data, and knowing where the edge of a galaxy lies will reduce the processing power needed to search through the data.
«But before we're ready to conduct a large - scale survey of star - forming and starburst galaxies with the
SKA we need to know as much as possible about these galaxies and what triggers their extreme rate of star formation,» he
said.
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