New science in Radio Astronomy: applying cutting-edge technology to enhance the entire data chain, from receiver to final output

射电天文学项目的目标是最大限度地促进欧洲主要的世界领先的射电天文学研究基础设施，这些基础设施多年来在确定其中长期科学愿景的共同挑战后，在维护现有设施以及重大升级计划方面投入了大量资金。在这个项目中，负责这些设施的研究所与工业界和学术界的合作伙伴联手，为超越最先进水平的技术解决方案开发“共同构建模块”，这将使广泛的新科学成为可能，并提高欧洲的科学竞争力。他们都需要不断提高能力，以实现新的科学：灵敏度，视场，带宽，角度，时间和频率分辨率，重复性和空中时间，反应时间和RFI缓解。与工业界合作开发先进技术将提高合作伙伴的技术水平，加强其市场地位，创造一个真正的欧洲创新体系。该项目进行了精心针对性的开发工作，并解决了完整数据链中的常见问题，将其分为四个阶段：新型探测器和组件，数字接收器，传输和相关器以及数据（后）处理。我们将设计和展示基于尖端技术的通用构建块，这些构建块将成为对RI最关键的领域的推动者和扩展者，并且可以并将用于多个RI的升级。构建模块将是新的仪器组件和基于新可用（HPC/AI优化）硬件的先进数字解决方案。这一方法将极大地提高欧洲主要射电天文观测台的科学交付潜力，用于其长期议程上的重要科学案例，目标是欧洲及其他地区尽可能广泛的科学界。

The goal of the RADIOBLOCKS project is to achieve a maximal boost for the European major world-leading research infrastructures in radio astronomy, which over the years have invested heavily in maintaining existing facilities as well as in substantial upgrade programmes, after identifying common challenges towards their mid- and long-term scientific visions. In this project, the institutes responsible of these facilities join forces, together with partners from industry and academia, in order to develop “common building blocks” for technological solutions beyond state-of-the-art, that will enable a broad range of new science and enhance European scientific competitiveness. They share the need to continuously improve their capabilities in order to enable new science: sensitivity, field of view, bandwidth, angular, time and frequency resolution, commensality and on-sky time, reaction time and RFI mitigation. Engagement with industry to co-develop advanced technologies will increase the partners’ technological levels and strengthen their market positions, creating a true European innovation system. This project carries out carefully targeted development work and addresses common aspects in the complete data chain, categorizing this in four phases: Novel detectors and components, digital receivers, transport and correlator, and data (post)processing. We will design and demonstrate common building blocks based on cutting-edge technologies, that will be enablers and extenders in the areas most critical to the RIs, and can and will be used for upgrades of several RIs. The building blocks will be new instrument components and advanced digital solutions based on newly available (HPC/AI optimized) hardware. This approach will enable a tremendous increase of the science delivery potential of Europe’s major radio astronomical observatories, for science cases that are high on their long-term agendas, aimed at the widest possible science community in Europe and beyond.