Final verification tests lead to Mk II PAF deployment
July 4, 2014
The ASKAP team is now on the verge of deploying the Mk II prototype phased array feed (PAF) to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). Upon completion of the verification tests […]
Early images of the sky achieved with ASKAP commissioning
June 11, 2014
New images of the sky show that CSIRO’s ASKAP is functioning as an aperture-synthesis telescope after just a few months of commissioning. “We’ve never had a telescope like this before,” […]
Collaboration is key for SKA pre-construction
May 30, 2014
CSIRO is working with representatives of the NRC (National Research Council, Canada) and ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) to undertake a collaborative measurement program using three different receiver element […]
SKA DG visits CASS
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 […]
First 15-baseline BETA observation achieved, March 2014
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. […]
UK announcement great news for the SKA
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 […]
ASKAP welcomes ministerial visit to MRO
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 […]
ASKAP correlator reconfiguration creates testing platform for BETA
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. […]
ASKAP simulations show idealised images of the sky
February 17, 2014
In preparation for early science observations with CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope, the Central Processor which recently went ‘live’ at the iVEC Pawsey Centre in Perth is now being put through its […]
ASKAP PAF receivers achieve performance goal
December 16, 2013
Recent tests of CSIRO’s innovative PAF receivers developed for radio astronomy have successfully demonstrated near-optimal system performance across the entire ASKAP band. Successful results have been achieved by CSIRO in […]
ASKAP spies spectral line for first time
October 17, 2013
ASKAP has made its first ever detection of a spectral line, using three ASKAP antennas at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The observation was performed remotely by […]
Feedback sought on ASKAP Early Science Program
September 26, 2013
Feedback is now being sought from the astronomy community on ASKAP Early Science, a program of observations designed to explore new scientific parameter-space with ASKAP before the construction of the […]