Just one of the recent commissioning results
feautred in the latest ASKAP Commissioning
Update; click on the image for more detail.
8 August 2014
Fantastic results continue to stream out from the six-antenna ASKAP engineering test array at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, with latest data featured in the new edition of the ASKAP Commissioning Update.
The Commissioning Update is a regular newsletter reporting on ASKAP activities and aimed at the astronomical community, highlighting challenges and bugs as well as new results and software. The latest edition reflects the steady stream of commissioning data that continues to come from the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (known as BETA) – an array of the first six ASKAP antennas installed with Mk I phased array feed receivers at the MRO.
Thanks to weekly ‘busy days’, the ASKAP Commissioning and Early Science (ACES) team has continued to ramp up the commissioning efforts for the BETA telescope, producing a number of ‘firsts’ for ASKAP.
Members of the ASKAP Survey Science Teams (SSTs) are also getting involved, with commissioning data already made available for the teams to analyse.
Recent results featured in this Commissioning Update show excellent progress made by the ACES team with pulsar monitoring, Galactic emission and HI in galaxies, as well as investigations into polarisation and VLBI with an ASKAP phased array feed receiver.