ASKAP Engineering Publications

Journal papers (2010-present)

• Tzioumis, A. K.; Tingay, S. J.; Stansby, B.; Reynolds, J. E.; Phillips, C. J.; Amy, S. W.; Edwards, P. G.; Bowen, M. A.; Leach, M. R.; Kesteven, M. J.; and 16 coauthors.  "Evolution of the parsec-scale structure of PKS 1934-638 revisited:  first science with the ASKAP and New Zealand Telescopes". AJ, 140, 1506-1510 (2010).
• Hampson, G., Tuthill, J., Brown, A., Neuhold, S., Bateman, T., Bunton, J.  "Xilinx FPGAs beam up next-gen radio astronomy".  Xcell Journal, 75, 30-35 (2011).
• Chippendale, A.; Hayman, D.; Hay, S.  "Measuring noise temperatures of phased-array antennas for astronomy at CSIRO". PASA, 31, e019 (2014).
• Hotan, A.W.; Bunton, J.D.; Harvey-Smith, L.; Humphreys, B.; Jeffs, B.D.; Shimwell, T.; Tuthill, J.; Voronkov, M.; Allen, G.; Amy, S.; and 91 coauthors.  "The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: System architecture and specifications of the Boolardy Engineering Test Array". PASA, 31, e041 (2014).
• Chippendale, A. P., Brown, A. J., Beresford, R. J., et al. 2015,  Measured Sensitivity of the First Mark II Phased Array Feed on an ASKAP Antenna, (arXiv:1509.00544, accepted for publication in ICEAA 2015 - International Conference on Electromagnets in Advanced Applications, September 2015).
• Chippendale, A. P., McConnell, D., Bannister, K., et al. 2016,  Recent Developments in Measuring Signal and Noise in Phased Array Feeds at CSIRO, (arXiv:1602.00402, accepted for publication in Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016)

Conference proceedings (2010-present)

• Jeganathan, K.; Gough, R.; Mackay, S.; Brothers, M.;  Chekkala,  R.  "Superheterodyne Receiver System for the Australian SKA Pathfinder".  In: Workshop on the Application of Radio Science (2010).
• Jackson, S.A.; Moghe, Y.; Gough, R.G.; Jackson, C.A.  "Highly integrated Silicon on Sapphire receiver for next-generation radio telescopes".  In:   Workshop on the Application of Radio Science, Canberra, 11-12 February, 2010 (2010).
• Hayman, D.; Chippendale, A.P.; Qiao, R.-Y.; Bunton, J.D.; Beresford, R.J.; Roberts, P.; Axtens, P.   “Gain calibration of phased array feeds”.  In:  International Conference on "Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications", Sydney, Australia, September 20-24, 2010 (2010)
• Chippendale, A.; O'Sullivan, J.; Reynolds, J.; Gough, R.; Hayman, D.; Hay, S.  "Phased array feed testing for astronomy with ASKAP".  IEEE International Symposium on "Phased Array Systems and Technology," Boston, USA, 28 October, 2010, 648-652 (2010).
• Hay, S., Hayman, D., Chippendale, A., O'Sullivan, J., Gough R. & Reynolds, J.  "Chequerboard phased array feed testing for ASKAP".  In:  Conference on "Phased Array Systems for Radioastronomy", Massachusetts, USA, 12-15 October, 2010 (2010).
• Schinckel, A., Bunton, J., Chippendale, A., Gough, R., Hampson, G., Hay, S., Jackson, C., Jeganathan, K., O'Sullivan, J., Reynolds, J., Shaw, R., Wilson, C.  “Recent progress in the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)”.  In:  Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 December, 2011, (2011).
• Granet, C.; Bowen, M.; Reynolds, J.; Davis, I.M.; Kot, J.S.; Pope, G.  "Design of a compact H/OH horn for the Parkes radio telescope". In:  Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Atennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Rome, Italy, 11-15 April 2011, 918-920 (2011).
• Bunton, J.D., Hampson, G., Brown, A., Pathikulangara, J., Tuthill, J., Souza, L.D., Joseph, J., Bateman, T. and Neuhold, S., “ASKAP Beamformer.” In:  Proceedings of the XXX URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of International Union of Radio Science, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-20 August, 2011, pp. 1–4, (2011).
• Hampson, G.; Macleod, A.; Beresford, R.; Brothers, M.; Brown, A.; Bunton, J.; Cantrall, C.; Chekkala, R.; Cheng, W.; Forsyth, Gough, R. and 11 co-authors.  "ASKAP PAF ADE — Advancing an L-band PAF design towards SKA". In:  Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 807-809 (2012).
• Tuthill, J.; Hampson, G.; Bunton, J.; Brown, A.; Neuhold, S.; Bateman, T.; de Souza, L.; Joseph, J.  "Development of multi-stage filter banks for ASKAP". In:  Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 1067-1070 (2012).
• Beresford, R.; Bunton, J.  "Shielding requirements for ADE receivers".  In:  Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May 2013, 300-303 (2013).
• Chung, Y.S.; Dunning, A.; Bowen, M.A.  "Ultra sharp roll-off bandpass filter design for near pass-band RFI mitigation".  In: Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Seoul, Korea, 5-8 November, 2013, 491-493 (2013).  
• Dunning, A.; Chung, Y.; Bowen, M.  "Offset quad ridged ortho-mode transducer with a 3.4:1 bandwidth".  In:  Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Seoul, Korea, 5-8 November, 2013, 3 p. (2013).
• Li, Li; Forsyth, R.; Jackson, C.  "Potential of steel-fibre-reinforced concrete to increase RFI mitigation of antenna foundations".  In:  Asia-Pacific International Symposium and 307-307 (2013).
• Chippendale, A.; Wormnes, K.  "Spectrum quietness metrics for radio astronomy". In:  Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May 2013, 312-315 (2013).
• Beresford, R.; Li, Li.   "Pre-compliance EMC measurements for MRO equipment". In:  Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May, 2013, 296-299 (2013).
• Forsyth, R.; Jackson, C.; Kesteven, M.; Li, Li; Mickle, S.; Yifan, Zhang; Minxiang, S.; Zhenguo, F. "Lessons from the delivery of antennas for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Radio Telescope (ASKAP)". In: Thirteenth Australian Symposium on Antennas, (2013).
• Roberts, P.; Beresford, R.  "New instrumentation for EMC work in radio astronomy". In:  Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May, 2013, 468-470 (2013).
• Jackson, C.A.; Forsyth, A.R.; Li, L.; Kesteven, M.J.; Mickle, S.  "EMC considerations for the ASKAP dish antennas". In Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May 2013, 360-363 (2013).
• Hampson, G.; Brown, A.; Neuhold, S.; Bunton, J.; Macleod, A.; Tuthill, J.; Beresford, R. "ASKAP advancements in beamformer and correlator optical backplane technology". In: 2013 US National Committee of URSI National 1, 127 (2013).
• Abeywickrema, S.; Allen, G.; Ardern, K.; Schinckel, A.; Leitch, A.; Wilson, C.; Beresford, R.  "Practical solutions for realising an RFI compliant building for the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope". In: Asia-Pacific International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 May, 2013, 368-371 (2013).
• Bowen, M.A.; Gough, R.G.; McKinnon, M.M.  "Receiver Systems for Square Kilometre Array Survey". In:  1st Australian Microwave Symposium, 2 p. (2014).
• Hayman, D.; Chippendale, A.; Hotan, A.; Shaw, R.; Hay, S.; Bird, T.; Hall, P.; Esselle, K.  "Measuring radiotelescope phased array feed noise and sensitivity". In:  8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014 ), The Hague, The Netherlands, 6-11 April, 2014, 3 p. (2014).
• Tuthill, J.; Bateman, T.; Brown, A.; Bunton, J.D.; Hampson, G.; Hotan, A.; Neuhold, S.; Reynolds, J.; Shimwell, T.; Voronkov, M.  "Australian SKA Pathfinder: Digital signal processing implementation and early engineering test array results". In:  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 7540-7544 (2014).
• Brown, A.J.; Hampson, G.A.; Roberts, P.; Beresford, R.; Bunton, J.D.; Cheng, W.; Chekkala, R.; Kiraly, D.; Neuhold, S.; Jeganathan, K.  "Design and implementation of the 2nd generation ASKAP digital receiver system".  In: Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications 268-271 (2014).
• Hampson, G.A.; Brown, A.; Bunton, J.D.; Neuhold, S.; Chekkala, R.; Bateman; Tuthill, J.  "ASKAP Redback-3 – An agile digital signal processing platform". In:  URSI GASS 2014, Beijing, China, 16-23 August, 1-4 (2014).
• Hellbourg, G.; Chippendale, A.; Kesteven, M.; Jeffs, B.  "Reference antenna-based subspace tracking for RFI mitigation in radio astronomy".  In:  The 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Atlanta, USA, 3-5 December, 2014, 5 p. (2014).
• Tuthill, J., Hampson, G. A., Bunton, J.D., Harris, F. J., Brown, A.J., Ferris, R. and Bateman, T., “Compensating for Oversampling Effects in Polyphase Channelizers: A Radio Astronomy Application”, IEEE Signal Processing & SP Education Workshop, Utah, USA, August 2015.
• Hampson, G. A., Tuthill, J., Brown, A.J., Bunton, J.D. and Bateman, T., “A Reconfigurable Optically Connected Beamformer and Correlator Processing Node for SKA”, IEEE Signal Processing & SP Education Workshop, Utah, USA, August 2015.
• Hellbourg, G., “Subspace Smearing and Interference Mitigation with Array Radio Telescopes”, IEEE Signal Processing & SP Education Workshop, Utah, USA, August 2015.

ASKAP is an SKA-precursor telescope situated at the MRO in Western Australia.
We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji as the traditional owners of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory site.

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