The SKA Mid-frequency All-sky continuum survey: Discovering the unexpected and transforming radio-astronomy

Ray P. Norris∗1,7, Kaustuv Basu2, Michael Brown3, Ettore Carretti1, Anna D. Kapinska4,7, Isabella Prandoni5, Lawrence Rudnick6, Nick Seymour1,4 1CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia; 2Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany; 3Michael J. I. Brown, School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton Vic 3800, Australia; 4ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; 5 INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Via Gobetti 101, 40125 Bologna, Italy; 6Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, USA. 7ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Sydney, Australia. E-mail: Ray.Norris@csiro.au

[1]  J. Mould,et al.  THE UBIQUITOUS RADIO CONTINUUM EMISSION FROM THE MOST MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES , 2011, 1103.2828.

[2]  University of Sydney,et al.  The Phoenix Deep Survey: The 1.4 GHz Microjansky Catalog , 2002, astro-ph/0211068.

[3]  R. Norris,et al.  The deep diffuse extragalactic radio sky at 1.75 GHz , 2014, 1408.4160.

[4]  R. P. Norris,et al.  ATLAS 1.4 GHz data release 2 – II. Properties of the faint polarized sky , 2014, 1403.5308.

[5]  R. Schilizzi,et al.  On the nature of compact steep spectrum radio sources , 1990 .

[6]  T. Heckman,et al.  On the fundamental dichotomy in the local radio-AGN population , 2012, 1201.2397.

[7]  B. M. Gaensler,et al.  FARADAY ROTATION FROM MAGNESIUM II ABSORBERS TOWARD POLARIZED BACKGROUND RADIO SOURCES , 2014, 1406.2526.

[8]  M. Jarvis,et al.  Unravelling lifecycles & physics of radio-loud AGN in the SKA era , 2014, 1412.5884.

[9]  Chris Blake,et al.  A velocity dipole in the distribution of radio galaxies , 2002, Nature.

[10]  J. Condon,et al.  Confusion and flux-density error distributions , 1974 .

[11]  Oxford,et al.  Probing primordial non-Gaussianity via iSW measurements with SKA continuum surveys , 2014, 1406.0010.

[12]  Jeff Wagg,et al.  Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array , 2015 .

[13]  Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro,et al.  Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array , 2015 .

[14]  Douglas Scott,et al.  The DRAO Planck Deep Fields: The Polarization Properties of Radio Galaxies at 1.4 GHz , 2010 .

[15]  K. I. Kellermann,et al.  RESOLVING THE RADIO SOURCE BACKGROUND: DEEPER UNDERSTANDING THROUGH CONFUSION , 2012, 1207.2439.

[16]  J. Riley,et al.  The Morphology of Extragalactic Radio Sources of High and Low Luminosity , 1974 .

[17]  Bryan M. Gaensler,et al.  Survey Science with ASKAP: Polarization Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM) , 2010 .

[18]  G. Brunetti,et al.  Radio halos in future surveys in the radio continuum , 2012, 1210.1020.

[19]  I. Prandoni,et al.  Revealing the Physics and Evolution of Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters with SKA Continuum Surveys , 2014, 1412.6512.

[20]  Matthew Lallo,et al.  Experience with the Hubble Space Telescope: 20 years of an archetype , 2012 .

[21]  K. Institute,et al.  Faraday rotation measure synthesis , 2005, astro-ph/0507349.