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The SKA and "High-Resolution" Science
"High-resolution", or "long-baseline", science with the SKA and its
precursors covers a broad range of topics in astrophysics. In several research
areas, the coupling between improved brightness sensitivity of the SKA and a
sub-arcsecond resolution would uncover truly unique avenues and opportunities
for studying extreme states of matter, vicinity of compact relativistic
objects, and complex processes in astrophysical plasmas. At the same time, long
baselines would secure excellent positional and astrometric measurements with
the SKA and critically enhance SKA image fidelity at all scales. The latter
aspect may also have a substantial impact on the survey speed of the SKA, thus
affecting several key science projects of the instrument.Comment: JENAM-2010: Invited talk at JENAM session S7: The Square Kilometre
Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm; 9
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