The LOw Time Resolution Universe Survey
The Low Time Resolution Universe Survey (LOTRUN) employs ASKAP’s newest instrument CRACO for a project with two main aims:
- to demonstrate and validate the operation of the CRACO system as part of the ATNF National Facility,
- to probe the Galactic radio sky at sub-second timescales.
Like the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey, it is distinguished from the Survey Science Projects (SSPs) by being initiated and led from ATNF as an Observatory Project for the benefit of the user community.
A detailed project description can be found in this LOTRUN Survey Scope and Policies document.
Technical information, including the observing fields and data are available on the Technical Information webpage.
A colour image of the Optical sky along the Galactic Plane, showing an abundance of stars and dust clouds. Overlaid are a series of mosaicked red circles, representing the ASKAP beam footprint for each of the 20 fields of the LOTRUN survey.
Equirectangular projection of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 all-sky colour image in Galactic coordinates, with the LOTRUN ASKAP footprints indicated with red circles for each of the 20 fields. Copyright: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho.
The LOTRUN Team
| Member | Role |
| Andrew Zic (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) | Survey lead |
| Aidan Hotan (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) | ASKAP Senior Systems Scientist |
| Vanessa Moss (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) | Head of ASKAP Science Operations |
| Keith Bannister (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) | CRAFT/CRACO PI |
| Matthew Whiting (CSIRO Space & Astronomy) | Head of ASKAP Data Operations |
| Ryan Shannon (Swinburne University of Technology) | CRAFT/CRACO PI |
| Ziteng (Andy) Wang (ICRAR-Curtin) | CRACO scientist |
| Yuanming Wang (Swinburne University of Technology) | CRACO & VAST fast imaging specialist |
| Dougal Dobie (University of Sydney) | VAST Project Scientist |
| Tara Murphy (University of Sydney) | VAST PI |
| David L. Kaplan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | VAST PI |