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Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is designing and building ASKAP for use by the Australian and international research community. This effort is being coordinated by two of CSIRO's divisions:
Once completed, ASKAP will form part of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility.
ASKAP Collaborators
CSIRO is working with a number of organisations in the development of ASKAP, including:
- ASTRON (The Netherlands)
- NRC-HIA Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (Canada)
- Brigham Young University (USA)
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA)
ASKAP Survey Science Projects
Ten international projects have been selected to use ASKAP during its first five years of operation:
- Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU)
- Widefield ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey (WALLABY)
- The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH)
- An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients (VAST)
- The Galactic ASKAP Spectral Line Survey (GASKAP)
- Polarization Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM)
- The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients survey (CRAFT)
- Deep Investigations of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO)
- The High Resolution Components of ASKAP: Meeting the Long Baseline Specifications for the SKA (VLBI)
- Compact Objects with ASKAP: Surveys and Timing (COAST)
Other Experiments at the MRO
In addition to ASKAP, two other experiments are currently located at the MRO:
- Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)
- Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature (EDGES)
Other SKA-related Experiments in Australia
Other Organisations in Australia and New Zealand
Other organisations involved in SKA-related activities in Australia and New Zealand include:
- Australia òÀÓ New Zealand SKA Coordination Committee (anzSKA)
- University of Sydney
- University of Melbourne
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Australian National University
- University of Tasmania
- Curtin University of Technology
- University of Western Australia
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
- Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO)
- AUT University
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Pawsey High Performance Computing Centre for SKA Science
- Australasian SKA Industry Consortium (ASKAIC)
- iVEC
Other International Organisations
Other organisations involved in SKA-related activities internationally include:
- SKA Organisation (UK)
- Preparatory Phase for the SKA (PrepSKA) (UK)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory (USA)
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA)
- Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Germany)
- Raman Research Institute (India)
Further Information
- Latest ASKAP news
- ASKAP Update newsletter
- Information for industry