Synthesis Imaging Workshop - Australia Telescope National Facility
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Decadal Plan UNSW, 17 Dec 2004
Australia Telescope
Operated by CSIRO as a National Facility since 1990As a National Facility, the Australia Telescope provides world-class observing facilities in radio astronomy for astronomers at Australian and overseas institutions.
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Facilities
Parkes– 64m diameter single dish– Operates over many bands in 0.44 - 22 GHz– including the 13-beam 21cm receiver
Compact Array (Narrabri)– Aperture synthesis array of 6 22m dishes, 6km baseline– 1.2 – 1.7, 2.2 – 2.6, 4.4 – 6.7, 8.0 – 9.2 GHz– 16 – 25 and 84 – 106 GHz
Mopra (Coonabarabran)– 22m single dish– 1.2 – 1.7, 2.2 – 2.6, 4.4 – 6.7, 8.0 – 9.2 GHz– 85 - 115 GHz
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Facilities
Long Baseline Array (LBA)– Parkes, Mopra, ATCA– Hobart & Ceduna (U Tasmania)– Tidbinbilla (NASA Deep Space Network)– offshore facilites
Headquarters, LBA correlator and engineering development in Marsfield
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Past decade - Instrumentation
Parkes– 13-beam 21cm receiver– 8GHz receiver and surface upgrade to 54m– Wideband digital correlator– 10/50cm receiver
ATCA– 214m North Spur– 12/3.5mm upgrade
Mopra– 600 MHz digital spectrometer
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Past decade - Science
Pulsar surveys– ~1000 pulsars discovered– Double pulsar
HI surveys– SGPS– HIPASS
Deep radio continuum– Hubble/Chandra deep fields– 20GHz ATCA survey
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Usage - ATCA
Long Baseline Array (LBA)
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Usage - Parkes
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User Profile
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Compact Array Parkes
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Publications
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Student training
ATNF-affiliated PhD students– Joint University-ATNF supervision– Free accommodation at observatories– Support for page charges and one overseas trip– Top-up scholarships available via CSIRO (~2 per year)
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Student training
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ATNF Developments
The Big FiveNew Technology Demonstrator (NTD)– Part of SKA Roadmap
Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB)– 512MHz Digital Filter Bank (DFB) operational – 2GHz available @ Mopra by June 2005– 8GHz @ ATCA by Jun 07
» Priority of broadband L/S & C/X upgrade?
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ATNF Developments
The Big Five (continued)Parkes Methanol Multibeam 6 - 6.7 GHz (w/Jodrell Bank)– Preliminary mechanical design complete– Oct 2005 installation
ATCA 7mm system– Construction cost A$6.4M
» 50:50 cost sharing
– Commissioning Q4 2006 (w/CABB: Q2 2007)
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ATNF Developments
The Big Five (continued)eVLBI– All stations network-ready – 512MB/s achieved
» Huygens demo» 31s photon-to-fringe
– Network connections» July 2005?
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Future Strategic Directions
ATCA– Maximise pre-ALMA window-of-opportunity
Parkes– Major survey programs
Mileura– xNTD operations
Australasian LBA– eVLBI network (PKS/ATCA/Hobart/Ceduna/Mileura/NZ)
ATNF– SKA development
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ATNF Issues
Future of MopraExtent of engagement in Virtual ObservatoryManaging 3 sites– Investment in new technology: NBR/PKS v SKA
Remote/queue observingMajor new initiatives– Extend N Spur @ Narrabri?– 20GHz Multibeam/FPA development @ Parkes?
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Future
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
MOPS
7mm
CABB
6GHz m’beameVLBI eVLBI
20GHz M’beam? NTD
xNTD
Narrabri/Mopra Parkes Mileura
Ext N Spur?FPA?
Pulsar DFB