The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerful telescope in history

Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by Osmium on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:28AM (#9902035)

CERN had a similar problem too, and the only solution was just to throw away a lot of their data. Do you expect this might happen with SKA, or is the hope that they can capture everything for later processing?

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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by kenny-log_ins on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:02AM (#9902119)

It depends - the amounts of data involved are mammoth by today's standards, but the idea is that we will develop new methods and tools to make the project feasible. The announcement and funding of the SKA will probably help this process along too, as specific challenges are addressed throughout the programme

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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by Xophmeister on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:09AM (#9902142)

From the article:

    There will be far too much data for it all to be simply recorded.
    The plan is to "use an algorithm to reduce that data down to a
    smaller magnitude that you can then process further on a super
    computer", Morgan says.

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