Splinter Meeting

Science with the DSA-2000 Radio Camera

240th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Date / Venue


Venue: 240th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Pasadena CA)

Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | 2:00 PM PT - 3:30 PM PT

Room: Conference Room 101, Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA

Program

14:00 Project Overview Gregg Hallinan, Caltech

14:15 Antenna and Infrastructure David Woody, Caltech, OVRO

14:25 Pulsars/NANOGrav Thankful Cromartie, Cornell University

14:35 LIGO-Virgo-Kagra follow-up Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech

14:45 The Interstellar Medium in the Local Universe Eva Schinnerer, Max Planck Heidelberg

14:55 AGN feedback across cosmic time Kristina Nyland, Naval Research Laboratory

15:05 The magnetized Universe Bryan Gaensler, University of Toronto

15:15 Fast and slow transients Dillon Dong, Liam Connor, Caltech

Rationale

The DSA-2000 is designed to be a world-leading radio survey telescope that has just passed its Conceptual Design Review (CDR), slated for construction in the middle of this decade. The telescope will consist of 2,000 x 5-m dishes operating between 0.7-2 GHz and will operate as a radio camera, providing the community with images and data cubes rather than visibility data products. The DSA-2000 images will have few-arcsecond resolution, sub-microJansky sensitivity, and dynamic ranges >100,000 across the entire sky. The Radio Camera Initiative is developing the necessary algorithms and software.

The DSA-2000 will address frontier topics in multimessenger astronomy by discovering the afterglows of gravitational-wave events, and by timing a suite of millisecond pulsars to detect and characterize low-frequency gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes. Through a sixteen-epoch all-sky survey, the DSA-2000 will map, catalog, characterize and monitor over a billion radio sources, with detailed HI observations to z=1. These observations will transform our understanding of fuel and feedback associated with star formation and nuclear accretion in galaxies across cosmic time. Time-domain analyses of DSA-2000 survey data, including commensal searches for FRBs and pulsars, will deliver transformational samples of events that populate the dynamic radio sky.

During this AAS splinter session we will discuss the observatory's design as well as some of the key science that the DSA-2000 will address. The DSA-2000 will also have a booth in the main exhibition hall where additional information will be presented.

We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Fabian Walter (walter@mpia.de), Gregg Hallinan (gh@astro.caltech.edu), and/or Vikram Ravi (vikram@astro.caltech.edu).