SPARCS: SKA Pathfinders Radio Continuum Surveys Working Group 

 

Maximising the science from radio continuum surveys

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About us

• Overview and Goals
• Join the SPARCS mailing list (see above)
• Join us on SLACK 
  

 

SPARCS Initiatives

• RadioZoo
• Radio Survey Reference Fields
• Review paper on "Radio Continuum Surveys with SKA Pathfinders"

    

SPARCS Meetings

• SPARCS Meeting 1, Leiden, February 2011

• SPARCS Meeting 2, Sydney, June 2012

• SPARCS Meeting 3, Jodrell Bank, September 2013

• SPARCS Meeting 4, Catania, Sicily, June 2014

• SPARCS Meeting 5, South Africa, July, 2015

• SPARCS Meeting 6, Goa, India, November 2016 

• SPARCS Meeting 7, Perth, Australia, July 2017

• SPARCS Meeting 8, Penticton, Canada, May2018
• SPARCS Meeting 9, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019 
• SPARCS Meeting 10, Zoom, November 2021  (link to wiki page)
• SPARCS Meeting 11, South Africa/Zoom, November 2022 (link to wiki page with recordings)
• SPARCS Meeting 12, Bologna Italy / Zoom, May 6-10 2024 

 

 

SPARCS Working Groups 

Membership is open to anyone who wants to actively participate. To join one of these, email the relevant leader, shown below. Each group will eventually have its own wiki - click on the link below to see it.

 

Active Groups

 

1. Data quality assessment (Jordan Collier, Betsey Adams)

2. Redshift determination (Ray Norris, Ken Duncan) 

3. Calibration and Imaging (Björn Adebahr, Brad Frank) 

4. Machine Learning (Ray Norris, Mattia Vaccari) 

5. Source Finding and Characterisation (Yjan Gordon)

6. Advanced imaging and calibration (Brad Frank, Bjorn Adebahar)
7. Multi-Wavelength Identification and Classification (Nick Seymour, Mattia Vaccari)
8. SPARCS refernce fields analysis (Tom Muxlow, Roland Kothes)
9. Science below the noise threshold and beating confusion (Jeroen Stil, Mario Santos)

 

 

 

Legacy (i.e. obsolete) wiki pages

• Astronomy below the survey threshold
• Source extraction (compact)
• Source extraction (diffuse)
• Source extraction (polarization)
• RM synthesis extraction in uv data
• X-ID and classification
•  Photo-z
•  Machine learning
•  Simulations (sky-side)
•  Simulations (telescope-side)
• Previous SPARCS WG

• SPARCS Organising Committee

• SPARCS Members