SKA observations of the cosmic web

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004newar..48.1281w&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 48, Issue 11-12, p. 1281-1287.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the first telescope capable of directly mapping the full extent of the cosmic web that characterizes the large scale structure of the Universe. The approach highlighted here is to map the cosmic web via the detection of diffuse synchrotron emission associated with the growth of the large scale structure in the local Universe. As matter collapses onto the filaments of the web it will be shock accelerated to extremely high energies. In the presence of even extremely weak magnetic fields these accelerated particles will emit large scale, diffuse synchrotron emission. The tremendous sensitivity of the SKA over a wide field and at low frequencies will allow us to fully map the cosmic web in the local Universe.

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