A major upgrade to the Australia Telescope Compact Array

澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列的重大升级

• 批准号: LE200100201
• 负责人: Prof Raymond Norris
• 金额: $ 35.34万
• 依托单位: Western Sydney University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-08-06 至 2023-08-05
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE200100201
• 关键词: major; upgrade; Australia; Telescope; Compact

This project aims to upgrade the $150m CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array ("the telescope"), by replacing the signal processing electronics and doubling the bandwidth. This will significantly enhance the performance of the telescope, enabling more ambitious science by the 450 researchers and students who use it each year. For example, it will enable the telescope to study radio counterparts to Gravitational Wave sources, and it will enable it to make detailed observations of initial discoveries made with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and other Australian telescopes. In short, it will enable Australian researchers to do more ambitious research, and make more discoveries, across broad areas of astrophysics.

该项目旨在升级1.5亿美元的CSIRO澳大利亚望远镜紧凑型阵列（“望远镜”），通过更换信号处理电子设备并将带宽增加一倍。这将大大提高望远镜的性能，使每年使用它的450名研究人员和学生能够进行更雄心勃勃的科学研究。例如，它将使望远镜能够研究引力波源的无线电对应物，并使其能够对澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者和其他澳大利亚望远镜的初步发现进行详细观测。简而言之，它将使澳大利亚研究人员能够在天体物理学的广泛领域进行更雄心勃勃的研究，并取得更多的发现。