Fwd: First fringes to the AuScope VLBI telescope at Yarragadee
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:32:44 +1000
Subject: First fringes to the AuScope VLBI telescope at Yarragadee
From: Jim Lovell <Jim.Lovell_at_utas.<!--nospam-->edu.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:05:47 +1000
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We are pleased to announce first interferometric fringes to the AuScope VLBI 12m telescope at Yarragadee (WA).
Observations of the quasar PKS 1921-293 were made on Monday May 18 at the AuScope VLBI Yarragadee and Hobart 12m antennas, and at the University of Tasmania Hobart 26m antenna. The data were then transferred electronically for correlation in DiFX at the Curtin University Parallel Processor for Astronomy (CUPPA) and good fringes were seen at both S and X-bands. Following this, the Yarragadee antenna participated in it’s first IVS observation, R1479, in tag-along mode on Tuesday May 19.
This achievement marks a significant milestone in the AuScope VLBI project with all three telescopes at Yarragadee, Katherine and Hobart now producing fringes. The Hobart 12m is now making IVS observations at a rate of typically three days per week, Katherine will join following some maser repair work in June and Yarragadee will ramp up to a three day per week rate over the next two months. Yarragadee is a key site in the AuScope VLBI array as it represents a co-location of many geodetic techniques, including VLBI, GNSS, SLR and gravity.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to achieving this milestone: our partners at the University of Tasmania, Curtin University, Geoscience Australia, staff at the MOBLAS-5 facility in Yarragadee, and colleagues at CSIRO and in the international geodetic VLBI community.
AuScope (www.auscope.org.au) is an initiative of the Australian Government being conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) through the Department of Innovation, Industry Science and Research.
It involves collaboration between universities, territory, state and federal governments and Geoscience Australia.
Best regards,
Jim Lovell, University of Tasmania
Steven Tingay, Curtin University
Gary Johnston, Geoscience Australia
Received on 2011-04-20 14:34:09
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:32:44 +1000
Subject: First fringes to the AuScope VLBI telescope at Yarragadee
From: Jim Lovell <Jim.Lovell_at_utas.<!--nospam-->edu.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:05:47 +1000
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lynx.tip.CSIRO.AU id OAA01243
We are pleased to announce first interferometric fringes to the AuScope VLBI 12m telescope at Yarragadee (WA).
Observations of the quasar PKS 1921-293 were made on Monday May 18 at the AuScope VLBI Yarragadee and Hobart 12m antennas, and at the University of Tasmania Hobart 26m antenna. The data were then transferred electronically for correlation in DiFX at the Curtin University Parallel Processor for Astronomy (CUPPA) and good fringes were seen at both S and X-bands. Following this, the Yarragadee antenna participated in it’s first IVS observation, R1479, in tag-along mode on Tuesday May 19.
This achievement marks a significant milestone in the AuScope VLBI project with all three telescopes at Yarragadee, Katherine and Hobart now producing fringes. The Hobart 12m is now making IVS observations at a rate of typically three days per week, Katherine will join following some maser repair work in June and Yarragadee will ramp up to a three day per week rate over the next two months. Yarragadee is a key site in the AuScope VLBI array as it represents a co-location of many geodetic techniques, including VLBI, GNSS, SLR and gravity.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to achieving this milestone: our partners at the University of Tasmania, Curtin University, Geoscience Australia, staff at the MOBLAS-5 facility in Yarragadee, and colleagues at CSIRO and in the international geodetic VLBI community.
AuScope (www.auscope.org.au) is an initiative of the Australian Government being conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) through the Department of Innovation, Industry Science and Research.
It involves collaboration between universities, territory, state and federal governments and Geoscience Australia.
Best regards,
Jim Lovell, University of Tasmania
Steven Tingay, Curtin University
Gary Johnston, Geoscience Australia
Received on 2011-04-20 14:34:09