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Invited Talk: Thursday 16 May - Dr Jamie Leech
Title: Design of SKA Band 5
Author: Dr Jamie Leech
Senior Researcher
Department of Physics
University of Oxford
UK
Abstract:
The Square Kilometre Array is a large international collaboration to design the world's largest radio telescope. At Oxford University we are developing the front-end receiver for the SKA Band 5 (4.6-15.3 GHz). In this talk I will outline the current status of the receiver design, describe the status of current prototypes and show calculations of the expected on-sky sensitivity and optical performance of the final instrument.
More about the author:
Jamie Leech was born in Birmingham, U.K, in 1975. He obtained an M.Sci. in natural sciences (experimental and theoretical physics) from Cambridge University, U.K. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics, also from Cambridge University, in 2002. He was a support astronomer at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope between 2002 and 2006, and is currently a Senior Researcher at the the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, U.K. Research interests include instrumentation for radio and submillimetre astronomy and experimental cosmology. He is currently working on C-BASS, a 5GHz all-sky radio survey of polarized foregrounds for future CMB (cosmic microwave background) B-mode experiments. He is also the technical lead for the design of the Band 5 Single Pixel Package for the Square Kilometre Array.