May 22, 2014
We advise that the document: CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive: Overview, Requirements and Use Cases (Version 1.0) is now available on the ATNF website. Comments on this document are welcome […]
May 19, 2014
CSIRO has been impacted by a significant reduction in funding through the latest Federal budget, announced on 14 May 2014, as have many other agencies and activities funded by the […]
May 16, 2014
A new image produced by the ASKAP commissioning team using the 6-antenna ‘BETA’ test array at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory when compared to data from a previous all-sky survey, indicates […]
May 5, 2014
Director General of the Square Kilometre Array, Professor Phil Diamond, visited Australia, dropping in to the Geraldton and Sydney offices of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) for an update […]
May 2, 2014
We are currently advertising for a Square Kilometre Array Chief Scientist. The successful appointee will be located in Perth, Western Australia and will: Provide strategic advice to CSIRO on SKA […]
April 24, 2014
The development of a second generation (Mk II) receiver and data processing chain for ASKAP has been underway since August 2011 through a work package known as ASKAP Design Enhancement […]
April 14, 2014
A visualisation tool developed by the ASKAP Computing team has provided essential support to the recent commissioning successes with ASKAP’s Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA). More information.
April 10, 2014
The ASKAP team has this week produced the first BETA spectral line image using six ASKAP antennas installed with innovative phased array feed (PAF) receiver systems, as part of ongoing […]
March 28, 2014
The ASKAP team has this week achieved the first 15-baseline observation using six ASKAP antennas and the newly reconfigured hardware correlator at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. […]
March 12, 2014
From the international SKA Office, comes news of an announcement by the UK Science Minister, David Willetts, of £100 million funding for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. “After […]
March 3, 2014
On Saturday 1 March, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and UK Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts visited CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory to learn more about Australia’s role in […]
February 24, 2014
Following recent successful commissioning activity that produced the first continuum image achieved with ASKAP, the hardware correlator is now being reconfigured at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. […]