The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Ar ray (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries that will be 50 times more sensitive than any existing radio facility. Most of the key science for the SKA will be addressed through large-area imaging of the Universe at frequencies from a few hundred MHz to a few GHz. The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a tech nology demonstrator aimed in the mid-frequency range, and achieves instantaneous wide-area imaging through the development and deployment of phased-array feed sys tems on parabolic reflectors. The large field-of-view makes ASKAP an unprecedented synoptic telescope that will make substantial advances in SKA key science. ASKAP will be located at the Murchison Radio Observatory in inland Western Australia, one of the most radio-quiet locations on the Earth and one of two sites selected by the international community as a potential location for the SKA. In this paper, we out line the ASKAP project and summarise it8 headline science goals as defined by the community at large.
telescopes - techniques interferometric -techniques polarimetric -radio continuum general - radio lines general
I.J. Feain S. Johnston
CSIRO Australia TeLescope National Facility
国际会议
The 10th Asian-Pacific Regional International Astronomical Union Meeting(第十届亚洲及太平洋地区天文学大会 APRIM)
昆明
英文
333-335
2008-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）