07 July, 2012

Observatory: Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)

ASKAP is situated in a radio qiuet zone (RQZ) at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), approximately 315km northeast of Geraldton in Western Australia.

ASKAP consists of:
  • Thirty-six 12m antennas 
  • with a max. baseline of about 6 km., 
  • working as a single instrument
  • to scan the skies for radio waves at a frequency range from 700 MHz to 1.8 GHz 
  • with 36 independent beams, "each of about 1 square degree, yield overlapping to a 30 square degree field-of-view at 1.4 GHz". 
  • Currently being retrofitted with new Aussie tech, phased array feed receivers, to expand their width of field.


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