ASKAP PAF receivers achieve performance goal

Recent tests of CSIRO’s innovative PAF receivers developed for radio astronomy have successfully demonstrated near-optimal system performance across the entire ASKAP band.

Successful results have been achieved by CSIRO in tests of its revolutionary new Phased Array Feed (PAF) receiver. Results confirm that the MkII generation PAF system design will reach performance targets.

The successful verification results will now lead into the production of full sized MkII PAFs, with deployment to the MRO expected in 2014.

Added by Flornes Conway-Derley on 2013-12-16