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CSIRO's Phased Array Feed (PAF) technology will go on show at the
Adelaide Convention Centre as part of the International Astronautical
Congress 2017 from September 25 to 29. PAFs were originally created
for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope in Western
Australia (pictured above), and a PAF has been built for the 100m
Effelsberg telescope near Bonn. Effelsberg, operated by the Max
Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), received a customised
version of the feed and
installed the PAF for commissioning earlier this year. The
Effelsberg-bound PAF was tested on the Parkes telescope for six
months before being shipped, and CSIRO is developing another
phased-array feed for Parkes, one cooled to low temperatures to
increase its performance.
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