Overview

This workshop invites the Australian community to present science and technology ideas for the post-2030 era that deliver transformational advances with existing or upgraded facilities and new demonstrators in the SKA era.

Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory is one of the best sites for radio astronomy observations in the world, and ATNF should take advantage of its unique environment. With SKA-Mid and SKA-Low telescopes coming online towards the end of the decade for science verification and full operations, and DSA-2000 operating from the late 2020s, it is timely for the community to start planning for post-2030 science and technology pathways.

The ASKAP telescope was built to:

1. Establish the Observatory site for the future SKA telescope,
2. Demonstrate SKA technologies, and
3. Undertake 5-year Science Survey Projects.

The first two aims have been achieved, and the third is planned to be complete by the end of the decade.

In January, ATNF will provide to the community a short whitepaper outlining a set of broad facility and technology concepts, and the boundary conditions for the discussion. An ASKAP upgrade path will be one of the concepts provided for discussion.

We will then invite abstracts for presentations that take one or more of these concepts and present a scientific and/or technology vision.

Registrations and abstract submissions open late January.

Aims of the Workshop

• To canvas ideas on the unique and world-leading science that ATNF can do in the 2030s
• To bring the Australian community into the conversation about the future of mid-high frequency radio astronomy
• To generate new ideas and collaborations within Australia and internationally.

Location

In-person at Marsfield and online

Organiser

Organising Committee:

• Cathryn Trott
• George Hobbs
• Kelly Gourdji
• Josh Preston Pritchard
• Aidan Hotan
• Nithya Thyagarajan