ASKAP Radio Telescope

ASKAP is the CSIRO’s newest radio telescope. It is situated at the Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wajarri Yamaji Country in the Murchison region of Western Australia, about 800 km north of Perth. ASKAP consists of 36 12m dishes, spread-out as far as 6km apart. It uses a new technology called Phased Array Feeds (PAFs), which allows it to see more of the sky at once. This novel technology allows ASKAP to achieve extremely high survey speed, making it one of the best instruments in the world for mapping the sky at radio wavelengths. Initial dataset...ASKAP是澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）最新的射电望远镜。它坐落于因亚里曼哈·伊尔加里·班达拉（Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara），即CSIRO默奇森射电天文观测站，位于西澳大利亚州默奇森地区的瓦贾里·亚马吉族传统领地，距离珀斯以北约800公里。ASKAP由36台12米口径的射电天线组成，各天线间距最远可达6公里。该望远镜采用了一项名为相控阵馈源（Phased Array Feeds, PAFs）的新技术，可使其同时覆盖更广阔的天区。这项创新性技术让ASKAP实现了极高的巡天速度，使其成为全球范围内开展射电波长天空测绘的顶尖设备之一。初始数据集……