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:
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.
- Information on ASKAP's antennas
- Information on ASKAP's receivers
- Information on ASKAP's smart feeds
- Information on ASKAP's digital systems
- Information on ASKAP's data transport and signal transmission systems
- Information on ASKAP's computing architecture
- Information on the Parkes Testbed Facility
- Latest ASKAP Update newsletter
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