Casey Law (Caltech): "The DSA-2000 in the Era of Astronomical Surveys"

Astronomy has been transformed by the development of survey telescopes and software that allows scientists to analyze or interpret massive data streams. The DSA-2000 is a radio interferometer concept in development at Caltech that will extend this transformation to the radio domain. The DSA-2000 is unique among current and planned large radio telescopes, in that it will operate as a dedicated survey telescope. As radio signals are fully digitized, the DSA-2000 data is massively multiplexed, producing sensitive spectro-polarimetric images while simultaneously searching for pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts. The flagship survey of the telescope is a billion source radio catalog that can be matched to counterparts from the Rubin Observatory, SPHEREx, and SRG/eROSITA. The fusion of these massive data sets is a challenge faced by data centers worldwide and an opportunity to reveal the science at the intersection of astronomical domains.