Exploiting Archives for Radio Astronomy in the SKA-era
23-25 November 2020, Lisboa, Portugal

Astrophysics is without doubt entering at present the century of data. Machine learning and data analysis technologies have already become an integral part of daily life, with data scientists building more and more sophisticated systems to select and examine huge amounts of data. The size and complexity of the data collected pose new challenges to the community for a complete and consistent analysis.

Radio community is not extraneous to such a problem since the amount of data available in current and future facilities is growing at a rate that will impose new approaches to the concepts of 'user support' and 'interface efficiency'. A suitable example of such effort is represented by the Square Kilometers Array (SKA), which will deliver Petabytes of data per year, a problem both in terms of data storage and computing capability.

In this context, the main goal of this workshop is to give an overview of the capabilities, development, and user support for archival research in the main worldwide radio facilities. In particular, invited speakers involved in archival research and tool developments within the European VLBI Network (EVN), the Low-Frequency Array LOFAR, the enhanced Multi-Element Remotely Linked Interferometer Network (e-MERLIN), and the Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA (AENEAS), will illustrate the state of art of the current database, performing tutorial on data mining and analysis tools. In this way, the workshop will increase the usage of archive related science produced with RadioNet facilities. Finally, the synergy with the AENEAS consortium will locate this workshop in the framework of the Horizon 2020 project, paving the way to future developments of the archive in the context of foreseen SKA data flow.


Format
Online Meeting (Zoom)


Registration deadline
15 November


Scientific Organising committee
Cirino Pappalardo (IA, University of Lisboa)
José Afonso (IA, University of Lisboa)
Israel Matute (IA, University of Lisboa)
Alasdair Thomson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, UK)
Robert Beswick (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, UK)
Anita Richards (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, UK)

Local Organising committee
Cirino Pappalardo (IA, University of Lisboa)
José Afonso (IA, University of Lisboa)
Israel Matute (IA, University of Lisboa)

This event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 [RadioNet]