The Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB) upgrade will provide a new broadband backend system for the ATCA. The maximum bandwidth of the ATCA will be increased from the current 128-MHz to 2-GHz, a factor of 16 improvement. This will improve the continuum sensitivity of the ATCA by at least a factor of four as well as providing a greatly enhanced spectral line performance, particularly at the higher observing frequencies. The wider bandwidth will allow projects studying spectral lines within a 2-GHz band to be carried out simultaneously.

This one-day Science Meeting is part of the ATNF Users Committee meeting occurring on the 14th and 15th May. The meeting will exhibit the capabilities of and early results from the new ATCA system – CABB. The ATNF has always benefited greatly from the healthy and vigorous interactions between engineers and astronomers, and in fact all ATNF staff. This is an occasion to reinforce those interactions and to celebrate the products of ATNF expertise.

Date:	Wednesday 13 May 2009, 10:30 – 16:00
Venue:	Lecture Theatre, ATNF Marsfield (Travel & Accommodation information)
Video/Tele-conference:	Meeting ID: 9542 Audio Phone Number: 02-6276-6622 Video Phone Number: 1029542

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Program

10:00	10:30	Tea/coffee
10:30	10:40	Lewis Ball	Introduction
10:40	12:00	Warwick Wilson (in absentia), Dick Ferris, Paul Roberts	CABB: the instrument
12:00	12:20	Mark Wieringa	Observations: preparation and operation
12:20	12:50	Jamie Stevens	Data handling and reduction
12:50	13:50	Lunch
13:50	14:10	Jamie Stevens	Recorded demonstration
14:10	14:25	Maxim Voronkov	Early indications of performance
14:25	14:40	Jamie Stevens	The new ATCA Users Guide
14:40	14:50	Ray Norris	CABB observations of the ECDFS
14:50	15:00	Elizabeth Mahony	Deep 20 GHz observations of X-ray selected QSOs
15:00	15:10	Tea/coffee
15:10	15:20	Bjorn Emonts	First results on spectral-lines and -indicies with CABB
15:20	15:30	Kate Brooks	First mm-wave CABB results
15:30	15:40	James Urquhart	Star formation on G305
15:40	16:00	James Caswell	CABB: ultimate capabilities

Registration

All are welcome to attend and participate in the ATUC CABB Science Day. There is no registration fee for the meeting which will be held in the Lecture Theatre on the Marsfield site of the ATNF. Morning tea, lunch and Afternoon tea will be provided for all participants. For catering purposes, please RSVP to Anne Barends.

Speakers

All speakers should email their contributions to at_meetings@atnf.csiro.au before the meeting starts. This will allow people from remote locations to access your talk.