Publication of the French SKA White Book

The preparation of the French SKA White Book was started at the beginning of 2017 with the aim of illustrating the scientific and technological interests of the French community for the SKA project. The White Book was completed during the summer, and its main content was presented during the First SKA France Day, on October 16th.

This work includes the contribution of 176 authors from 40 research laboratories and 6 private companies. Their fields of interest cover all topics of the international SKA Science Working Groups, as well as the main ambitious technological challenges of the SKA. The PI of the AENEAS project “MAGELLAN” (Prof. A. Ferrari) was in charge of coordinating the chapter concerning Signal Processing and Algorithmic developments in view of the SKA, while one of the participants to MAGELLAN (C. Ferrari) is the main editor of the book.

The French White Book is also on the arXiv.