ASKAP user community meets to workshop ideas
October 24, 2014
Members of the ASKAP Science Survey Teams and other potential ASKAP users met this week at the Marsfield headquarters of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in a one-day workshop to […]
“The sun never sets on the SKA”
October 20, 2014
In what has been called “the largest ever gathering of people working on the international SKA project”, some 300 engineers and scientists recently gathered in Fremantle, WA, to progress the […]
New image demonstrates rapid survey capability of ASKAP
October 7, 2014
An image has been generated with the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) that covers 50 square degrees of the sky, revealing approximately 2000 sources and demonstrating the rapid survey capability […]
ASKAP News: Mk II PAF lifted on to ASKAP antenna
September 5, 2014
The first full-size second generation (Mk II) phased array feed receiver was lifted on to ASKAP Antenna 29 at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory yesterday, marking a new milestone in the […]
ASKAP News: Mk II PAF pre-production underway
September 5, 2014
While testing and installation of the Mk II PAF is underway at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, back at the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science lab in Sydney, pre-production of the […]
Steerable beams create flexible ‘footprints’
September 5, 2014
The flexibility of the ASKAP phased array feed has been demonstrated by a variety of BETA observations using different shaped ‘beam footprints’. BETA has been used to image a galaxy […]
Tests on new ASKAP PAF indicate impressive system temperature
August 19, 2014
The first results from ground-based system tests on the full-size second generation (Mk II) phased array feed receiver have indicated impressive system temperature across the ASKAP band. These preliminary results […]
System tests underway on Mk II ASKAP PAF at the MRO
August 8, 2014
Initial ground-based system tests have been run on the first full-size, second generation (Mk II) ASKAP phased array feed receiver at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. More information.
First VLBI observations with ASKAP PAF
July 24, 2014
Promising results have been achieved from the first VLBI observations between an ASKAP phased array feed (PAF) receiver and the Australian LBA. More information.
CASDA prepares for ASKAP data
July 18, 2014
Over the coming year, a special team made up of staff from CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO’s IM&T and the iVEC Pawsey Centre, will work to develop and build […]
BETA commissioning probes hydrogen across the distant universe
July 17, 2014
As part of ongoing commissioning tests with the 6-antenna ASKAP commissioning array known as ‘BETA’, a new spectrum has been produced that demonstrates the wide bandwidth of ASKAP and the […]
MRO prepares for the second generation ASKAP receiver
July 4, 2014
While commissioning activities continue apace with the 6-antenna Boolardy Engineering Test Array at the MRO in Western Australia, the ASKAP team is also busily preparing the site for ground aperture […]