1. ASKAP Update David DeBoer ASKAP Project Director 26 May 2010

2. High-dynamic range, wide field-of-view imaging Number of dishes36 (3-axis) Dish diameter 12 m Max baseline 6km Resolution30  Sensitivity65 m 2 /K Speed1.3x10 5 m 4 /K 2. deg 2 Observing frequency700 – 1800 MHz Field of View30 deg 2 Processed Bandwidth300 MHz Channels16k Focal Plane Phased Array 188 elements + Infrastructure for Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) + Support of other projects (MWA, EDGES, +) ASKAP Design Goals

3. ASKAP System and Data Flow NBN

4. Antenna

5. Show Movie

6. Site infrastructure July 2010 | Jan 2011 | July 2011 | Jan 2012 Antennas 2-6 First PAFs - BETA Fibre 7-36 MRO Infrastructure MSF

8. Site Layout

9. Site Compound

10. Control Building

11. Phased Array Feed Additional testing on-going on 5x4 prototype at Marsfield. New prototype for Parkes July 2010 Much theoretical work on conducting surveys – good beam! First complete mechanical PAF going together now.

12. Phased Array Feed -4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2 0 2 4

13. Digital

14. VLBI

15. ASKAP & NZ VLBI of 1934-638 Normal LBA at 1.4 GHzLBA with NZ and ASKAP

16. Cen A

17. CSIRO SST3 continuum image SKADS sky model 6km configuration +/- 4 hours 128 2.53 MHz channels 20s integration 32 PAF beams separated by 0.5deg 14.1 uJy/beam noise AProjectWStack No wplanes in simulation or imaging 10” resolution Made possible by pre-production system loaned by Intel Image equalised May 25, 2010

18. CSIRO SST3 continuum image (zoomed)

19. CSIRO SST3 continuum image