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RE: 1st Fringes Oz-NZ

From: <David.Jauncey_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:17:20 +1000

Dear Steven et al.,

Bl**dy good show!, finally!

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vlbiobs_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au on behalf of Tzioumis, Tasso (ATNF, Marsfield)
Sent: Thu 10/20/2005 5:11 PM
To: VLBI observers
Cc: Tzioumis, Tasso (ATNF, Marsfield)
Subject: 1st Fringes Oz-NZ
From: Steven Tingay <stingay_at_astro.<!--nospam-->swin.edu.au>
Subject: First VLBI fringes between Australia and New Zealand

(message bounced in vlbiobs)

Dear All,

You will all be aware of the recent efforts to build a radio astronomy
capability in New Zealand, a collaboration between the Auckland
University
of Technology, the Swinburne University of Technology, and the CSIRO
Australia Telescope National Facility.

I'm pleased to be able to tell you, on behalf of our team, that we have
confirmed the first successful very long baseline interferometry
experiment between New Zealand and Australia. I will not go into a
lot of
detail here, but the observation took place in late July, between a 6 m
telescope in New Zealand and the Australia Telescope Compact Array
(ATCA)
near Narrabri in Australia.

This success follows on from about 6 months of fairly intense
development
of the systems and testing, mostly due to the work of Tim Natusch.
We've
had a lot of support from the ATNF, the University of Tasmania, AUT, and
Swinburne, and funding from the MED in New Zealand.

Sergei and Tim manned the New Zealand telescope for the successful
observation and Tasso Tzioumis manned the ATCA. The data were
correlated
in full in the last few days by Adam Deller on the Swinburne
supercomputer.

We hope that this good result will grow into much bigger successes
for New
Zealand radio astronomy. Having worked with the data, I'm excited by
the
future prospects for much larger and more sensitive radio telescopes in
New Zealand and look forward to our collaboration developing over the
next few years.

Cheers, Steven

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Dr Steven Tingay stingay_at_astro.<!--nospam-->swin.edu.au
Swinburne SKA Project Leader
Senior Lecturer

Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University of Technology
Mail No H39
P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia

ph: +61 3 9214 8758
fax: +61 3 9214 8797

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/ska
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Received on 2005-10-20 18:18:01