Editorial
Welcome to the October 2005 edition of the ATNF News. Once again we bring you an issue filled with articles and news items on activities happening at the ATNF. A thank you to all our contributors!
Our cover article highlights the capabilities of and growing interest in using the Compact Array at mm wavelengths. Juergen Ott describes the first results from the most detailed wide-field imaging to date of molecular gas at the centre of our Galaxy, as well as the first wide-field continuum map of the region at 12 mm. In another project Compact Array continuum observations at centimetre wavelengths are being used to search for radio galaxies at very high redshifts, as described by Julia Bryant on page 19.
Important information on OPAL, a new telescope application system for the ATNF, is given on page 4. On page 10 Chris Phillips and Tasso Tzioumis inform us of the new trends and developments in long baseline interferometer observations and describe how these are being implemented at the LBA.
The changes at the Mopra telescope and the excitement over the installation of a new 3/12-mm receiver can be found in separate articles by Graeme Carrad on pages 8 and 9 as well as in the observatory report by Bob Sault. Read also about the prototype Pulsar Digital Filter Bank and its successful installation on the Parkes dish in an article on page 6 by Grant Hampson and colleagues.
This newsletter also includes several other news items and our regular observatory reports besides reports on NTD and SKA developments. We hope you enjoy the newsletter! As always your comments and suggestions are welcome. The web version of this and previous issues can be found at www.atnf.csiro.au/news/newsletter.
This issue is the last for one of us at the ATNF News production team, Lakshmi Saripalli. The ATNF, and especially Jessica Chapman and Joanne Houldsworth, thank Lakshmi for all her excellent work on the newsletter.
Lakshmi Saripalli, Jessica Chapman and Joanne Houldsworth
The ATNF Newsletter Production Team
(newsletter@atnf.csiro.au)