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Published June 13, 2025 | Version SKAO-TEL-0002665, Revision 01
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A year in the life of the SKA telescopes: overview and main outcomes

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon SKA Observatory
  • 2. Square Kilometre Array Observatory

Description

In this document, we summarise the year in the life analysis in a compressed form that we hope will provide the community with an accessible resource that provides some guidance on how we might expect the SKA telescopes to function. It provides the SKA user community with the technical capabilities of the SKA telescopes at AA* during steadystate cycle operations, along with the science data processing workflows and their output data products. It also summarises the anticipated interaction between the telescope users, the SKA Observatory, and the SRCNet during the proposal submission, project execution, and data analysis phases. The SKA Observatory is compiling a scientific timeline describing the evolving capabilities of the SKA telescopes as we build towards steady-state cycle operations, which can be found on the Observatory’s scientific timeline webpage.

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2025-06-13
SKAO-TEL-0002665, Revision 01