The ASKAP team has made a great step forward in commissioning activities by achieving phase closure with three ASKAP antenna systems and the ASKAP FPGA-based hardware correlator at the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science headquarters in Sydney.
The successful lab test results now clear the way for the deployment of the ASKAP hardware correlator and firmware to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) for onsite integration and commissioning.