ISKAF2010 Science Meeting

Radio astronomy - in its broadest sense from metre to sub-millimetre wavelengths - is making a major leap forward. Triggered by the efforts being made towards realising the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a number of new facilities, or major upgrades of existing facilities, are coming on-line, bringing new excitement among radio astronomers and revitalising the interest of the astronomical community in general. The fantastic capabilities of these new facilities will revolutionise the way we do radio astronomy. The use of innovative technology solutions (including new software approaches and calibration algorithms) is expected to significantly enhance the performance of this new generation of radio telescopes. The associated advances in sensitivity, field-of-view, frequency range and spectral resolution guarantees that new and exciting science will be conducted. We are now truly entering a new golden age for radio astronomy. And this is only the beginning! The meeting takes its inspiration from the opening of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) but there are many other telescopes or upgrades that are now coming online. These include the E-VLA, e-MERLIN, e-VLBI, MWA, PAPER, ATA, eSMA, EMBRACE, SCUBA-2, APEX, IRAM, Yebes and ATCA (CABB). Some of these facilities are now beginning to produce their first results. This meeting aims to provide an overview of these first successes and indeed struggles(!), and highlight the future perspective and longer term goals of our community. These initial results will give a first taste of the science (and the challenges) that we will enjoy with the SKA. Several major elements of new telescopes like MEERKAT, ALMA, ASKAP, APERTIF, LWA, SRT and FAST are also expected to be producing some initial technical results around this time - these will also be covered in the programme of the meeting. In summary, we encourage presentations on results that use new or recently upgraded telescopes, or results that use new challenging techniques or address science issues that will be fully explored by the new generation of radio telescopes. The meeting is part of a week-long series of events organised around the opening of LOFAR and the International SKA Forum 2010. The LOFAR opening will take place on Saturday 12 June, while the Forum is scheduled on Tuesday 15 June. The (somewhat unusual) schedule of the "A new golden age for radio astronomy" meeting has been made in order to give the participants an opportunity to attend all of these events. On Monday June 14th science funding agencies from around the globe will meet to discuss how they will accommodate the SKA (Agencies SKA Group). On the same day industrial partners will join in a workshop to discuss the opportunities of the SKA, not only for science and industry but also for the society as a whole in the Connect Industry Science and Society Workshop (CISS). The venue for all of the above meetings will be the luxury resort "Hof van Saksen" located south of the city of Assen. The absolute climax of the week will be the International SKA Forum on June 15th at the TT-hal in Assen where high level politicians, top scientists, major industries, policy makers and candidate sites for the SKA will meet on ‘SKA beyond Astronomy'.

Sessions
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
POSTER PRESENTATIONS

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

The wide-field imaging with VISTA and the ESO public surveys PoS(ISKAF2010)001 pdf M.A. Arnaboldi

Towards a New Era of Observing Cosmic Magnetic Fields PoS(ISKAF2010)003 pdf R. Beck

Redshift dependence of scintillating AGN PoS(ISKAF2010)004 pdf H.E. Bignall

An update on MeerKAT developments PoS(ISKAF2010)005 pdf E.W.J.G. de Blok, R. Booth, J. Jonas and B. Fanaroff

Galaxy cluster magnetic fields PoS(ISKAF2010)006 pdf A. Bonafede

Radio Halos and the importance of future observations at low frequency PoS(ISKAF2010)008 pdf G. Brunetti and R. Cassano

The Heraclitean Universe: New Tools and Exotica from Transient Surveys of the Galaxy and Beyond PoS(ISKAF2010)012 pdf J.M. Cordes

Wide-Field Imaging and Transient Statistics from the ATA 20 cm Survey PoS(ISKAF2010)014 pdf S.D. Croft and G.C. Bower

The Golden Age of Radio Astronomy PoS(ISKAF2010)015 pdf R.D Ekers

Exploiting HI surveys with stacking. PoS(ISKAF2010)016 pdf S.F.S. Fabello

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - Phase 1 Design Concept PoS(ISKAF2010)018 pdf M.A. Garrett

Ground-based study of solar system planetary lightning PoS(ISKAF2010)022 pdf J.M. Griessmeier, P. Zarka, J. Girard, S. ter Veen and H.D.E. Falcke

The First Station of the Long Wavelength Array PoS(ISKAF2010)024 pdf P.A. Henning

Early Pulsar Observations with LOFAR PoS(ISKAF2010)025 pdf J.W.T. Hessels, B. Stappers, A. Alexov, T. Coenen , T. Hassall, A. Karastergiou, V.K. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. van Leeuwen, J.D. Mol, A. Noutsos and P. Weltevrede

HI signatures of galaxy evolution PoS(ISKAF2010)026 pdf T.M. van der Hulst

Cosmological 21cm experiments: Searching for a needle in a haystack PoS(ISKAF2010)028 pdf V. Jelic

Polarimetric images with the GMRT PoS(ISKAF2010)030 pdf S. Joshi and J.N. Chengalur

LOFAR, LEAP and beyond: Using next generation telescopes for pulsar astrophysics PoS(ISKAF2010)034 pdf M. Kramer and B. Stappers

The HI gas content of galaxies around Abell 370 PoS(ISKAF2010)035 pdf P. Lah

The future of VLBI has begun! PoS(ISKAF2010)036 pdf H.J. Van Langevelde

Going Deeper, Wider and Wideband PoS(ISKAF2010)037 pdf E. Lenc

The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) survey PoS(ISKAF2010)039 pdf J.P.R. Macquart, P. Hall and N. Clarke

LOFAR - Origins and Hopes PoS(ISKAF2010)040 pdf G.G.K. Miley

Current and Future Instrumentation on the 100m Green Bank Telescope PoS(ISKAF2010)042 pdf K. O'Neil

The latest on Apertif PoS(ISKAF2010)043 pdf T. Oosterloo

Type Ib/c supernovae observations with VLBI PoS(ISKAF2010)044 pdf Z. Paragi, A. van der Horst, C. Kouveliotou, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz and G.B. Taylor

The status of the FAST project PoS(ISKAF2010)046 pdf B. Peng

The AGN component in deep radio fields PoS(ISKAF2010)047 pdf I.L.D. Prandoni

Magnetic Field Observations with the SMA PoS(ISKAF2010)048 pdf R. Rao, J.M Girart and D.P Marrone

LOFAR and the low frequency Universe PoS(ISKAF2010)050 pdf H.J.A. Rottgering

Deep images at metre-wavelengths PoS(ISKAF2010)051 pdf S.K. Sirothia, D.J. Saikia and D. Burgarella

Galaxy evolution begins at home: GALFA and GASKAP PoS(ISKAF2010)052 pdf S. Stanimirovic

e-EVN observations of galactic transients PoS(ISKAF2010)053 pdf V.M. Tudose

Ultra-deep WSRT observations of HI at z=0.2 PoS(ISKAF2010)054 pdf M.A.W. Verheijen

Magnetic fields and massive star formation PoS(ISKAF2010)055 pdf attachments W.H.T. Vlemmings

The Australian SKA Pathfinder PoS(ISKAF2010)056 pdf T. Westmeier and S. Johnston

Recent LOFAR imaging pipeline results PoS(ISKAF2010)057 pdf G. Heald, J. McKean, R. Pizzo, G. van Diepen, J.E. van Zwieten, R.J. van Weeren, D. Rafferty, S. van der Tol, L. Birzan, A. Shulevski, J.D. Swinbank, E.O. Orru, F. De Gasperin, L. Ker, A. Bonafede, G. Macario and C. Ferrari

Long baseline experiments with LOFAR PoS(ISKAF2010)058 pdf O. Wucknitz

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

The LOFAR Known Pulsar Data Pipeline PoS(ISKAF2010)060 pdf A. Alexov, J.W.T. Hessels, J.D. Mol, B. Stappers and J. van Leeuwen

An introduction to the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) PoS(ISKAF2010)061 pdf A. Aminaei

LOFAR & HDF5: Toward a New Radio Data Standard PoS(ISKAF2010)062 pdf K.R. Anderson

The extraordinary FR II microquasar S26 in NGC 7793 PoS(ISKAF2010)063 pdf J.W. Broderick, M. Pakull, R. Soria, S. Corbel and C. Motch

A GPU based Transient Dedisersion Search Engine for CRAFT PoS(ISKAF2010)064 pdf R. Dodson

Probing Cosmic Rays in AGN and Clusters of Galaxies using radio observations PoS(ISKAF2010)065 pdf N.A.B. Gizani

Trumpeting the Vuvuzela: The deepest HI observations with MeerKAT PoS(ISKAF2010)068 pdf B. Holwerda and S. Blyth

Deep GMRT 150 MHz observations of LBDS PoS(ISKAF2010)069 pdf C.H. Ishwara chandra

A Simultaneous GBT/Fermi Study of Crab Giant Pulses PoS(ISKAF2010)070 pdf V.K. Kondratiev

Statistical inversion of the LOFAR EoR data PoS(ISKAF2010)071 pdf P. Lampropoulos

Exploring the radio bimodality of QSOs with the Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB) PoS(ISKAF2010)072 pdf E.K. Mahony

Ultra High Energetic Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Observations with LOFAR and SKA PoS(ISKAF2010)073 pdf M. Mevius, O. Scholten and C.W. James

Discovery of the Zeeman Effect in the 36 and 44 GHz Class I Methanol Maser Lines with the EVLA PoS(ISKAF2010)074 pdf A.P. Sarma and E. Momjian

The case of 3C326: VLA 74 MHz observations during a geomagnetic storm PoS(ISKAF2010)075 pdf E.O. Orru and H. Intema

Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the Local Universe PoS(ISKAF2010)077 pdf A. Popping

Multi-view VLBI with SKA Pathfinders PoS(ISKAF2010)078 pdf M.J. Rioja

The European Pulsar Timing Array PoS(ISKAF2010)080 pdf R.J.M. Smits

The role of the magnetic field in the massive star-forming region W75N. PoS(ISKAF2010)081 pdf G. Surcis and W.H.T. Vlemmings

The LOFAR Transients Pipeline PoS(ISKAF2010)082 pdf J.D. Swinbank

Real-time search for FastRadioTransients PoS(ISKAF2010)083 pdf S. ter Veen

Measuring Nearby Star Forming Regions with the VLBA PoS(ISKAF2010)084 pdf R.M. Torres

ASKAP and MeerKAT surveys of the Magellanic Clouds PoS(ISKAF2010)085 pdf J.T. van Loon

Prospects for detecting stellar tidal disruptions with LOFAR PoS(ISKAF2010)086 pdf S. van Velzen, H.D.E. Falcke and G.R. Farrar

What is the origin of a diffuse IGM in compact groups? PoS(ISKAF2010)087 pdf L.L. Verdes-Montenegro, M.S Yun, S. Borthakur, A. Del Olmo and J. Perea

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