Director’s Update AT Users’ Committee -- November 2016 Douglas Bock -- Director

ATUC Members – Nov 2016 Virginia Kilborn (Chair, Swinburne University) Jo Dawson (Secretary, Macquarie University / CASS) Stuart Ryder (AAO) James Miller-Jones (Curtin University) Stas Shabala (University of Tasmania) Willem van Straten (AUT) Vanessa Moss (Sydney University) Martin Bell (CASS) Sarah Hegarty (Student, Swinburne University) [vacant] Will be calling for nominations for ATUC and TAC in 2017

Highlights ASKAP Early Science PAF installation PAF on Parkes MRO Power station for ASKAP and MWA Breakthrough Listen start ATCA Legacy Projects FAST feed (and opening!) SKA IGO negotiations converging SKA construction focusing on a 2018 start DSS36 complete at Tidbinbilla Roadshow – Au Universities Oct/Nov (Swinburne, Sydney, UNSW, UWA, Curtin, AAO, ANU, UTas) The FAST 19-beam feed Photo credit: Wheeler Studios Most of these to be covered in later presentations

The ATNF in 10 years – the era of SKA Phase 1 Manager of the SKA Site & Radio Quiet Zone Operator for SKA in Australia Key Partner in SKA Regional Data Centre Technologies Research & Development Developing technologies for SKA and others Develop PAF technology as part of the SKAO Development Programme Towards SKA – Phase 2 An upgraded ASKAP ?

Status: stable ASKAP-12 array; 36 beams, 48 MHz bandwidth Demonstrate unique capabilities Data to community Feedback to CASS for tuning and improving science 12 ant. 25 % of time for about a year. 2000 nights. Status: stable ASKAP-12 array; 36 beams, 48 MHz bandwidth

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PAF Production/Installation Status (as of 04/11/2016) COMPLETED / PASS RETEST REQUIRED PARTIAL COMPLETION AK13 MPI AK14 AK10 AK24 AK16 AK30 AK28 AK04 AK05 AK02 AK12 AK27 AK17 AK22 AK18 AK25 AK01 shipped AK19 AK20 AK34 AK26 AK08 shipped AK06 AK03 shipped shipped

ASKAP Timeline 7 Oct 2016: start of ASKAP-12 Early Science with BW = 48 MHz WALLABY has gathered ~10 nights of data on one ES field 24 PAFs are currently installed at the MRO, 4 PAFs shipping to MRO 03/11 from 21 Oct 2016: ASKAP commissioning team to upgrade bandwidth to the full 300 MHz and test performance Nov/Dec 2016: ASKAP-12 Early Science, increase b/w (300 MHz) Dec 2016: 30 PAFs at the MRO, ready for single dish testing Feb 2017: upgrade Pawsey computing system (storage focus) Feb − Jul 2017: observing continues with core ASKAP-12 work on adding six PAFs to ASKAP-12 for science Sep 2017: final 6 PAFs at MRO, ready for testing (31 – 36) Commence rollout of AR3, AR4 etc to enable 24, 30, 36 Q3 2017: commissioning with ASKAP-30 ** Demonstrate unique capability Data to community Feedback to CASS for tuning and improving science 12 ant. 25 % of time for about a year. 2000 nights ** message – essential to understand uncertainty of s/w rollout and testing. AR releases of ASKAPsoft will continue to discover issues with the system and Pawsey, even though we do full end to end tests in advance with simulated data. Increasing ASKAPSoft from 12 to 30 antennas should commence in June 2017, with a restricted number of modes – some transient, zoom etc won’t be till later (2018).

Initial operations include use of diesel generators and the Horizon Power 250kW solar array. Horizon Power will lead the integration of Stage 2 being the CSIRO SESKA funded 1.6MW solar Array and 2.5MWh energy storage system

2017 ASKAP Commissioning and Early Science ATCA Legacy Projects and Breakthrough Listen Technologies Deliver UWB-LOW feed and ASKAP PAFs Seek funding for Parkes PAF and ASKAP Feedleg upgrade, ASKAP Tied Array mode Publish the long term strategy for the program Pipeline of projects for continuity of expertise Broader impacts of our program ATNF Operations Negotiations on observing time (EoI process) Potential reductions in access to Parkes and/or ATCA, LBA. SKA Intergovernmental Org (IGO), funding, CDRs Designing our regional Centre (CSIRO SKA project scientist)

Key questions for ATUC Relative risks and priorities of maintaining merit-based access to ATCA Parkes LBA What should the SKA Regional Centre provide to Australian astronomers (ongoing consultation)? We are just beginning the discussion on Regional Centres. CASS will lead Australian community input to the process

We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site

Backup slides follow

CSIRO funding of radio astronomy Expected to be steady