From: <rojha_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:01:58 -0400

Fantastic news! Congratulations to this fabulous team.

Roopesh

On Apr 22, 2010, at 8:55 AM, John Reynolds wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm delighted to announce that the first VLBI fringes to an ASKAP
>antenna were found today in a test observation between Antenna #29
>at Boolardy and Mopra. The fringes were easily detected in a one-
>second grab of data trickled out of Boolardy on the satellite link
>and correlated at Parkes.
>
>Further VLBI observations with Antenna #29 and the full Australian
>VLBI array are planned over the next few weeks to tackle some real
>science.
>
>In the long standing tradition of VLBI this encouraging early
>success is the due of a geographically dispersed but very effective
>team. Congratulations go in particular to Tasso Tzioumis, Shaun Amy,
>Yoon Chung, Mike Kesteven, Mark Bowen, Chris Phillips, Mark Leach
>and Ross Forsyth of CSIRO, and Bruce Stansby and Steven Tingay of
>Curtin University.
>
>Regards,
>John Reynolds
Received on 2010-04-22 23:02:24