16th of May 2018 |
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Ultra-Wide-band Low installation |
Yesterday saw the installation of a new Ultra-wide-band receiver on
the Parkes telescope. The receiver is capable of detecting frequencies
between 700 MHz and 4.2 GHz -- a much wider range than has been
possible in the past. The $2.5 million instrument was developed by
CSIRO and a consortium of Australian universities led by Swinburne
University of Technology, with funding from the Australian Research
Council, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy and the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Previous ADAP's have shown the receiver being characterised in an anechoic chamber in 2015 and being trialled on the Dish in 2017. Read more about the new receiver in this CSIRO blog. (Picture credit: John Sarkissian.) |