ASKAP produces first spectral line 'data cube'
(2014-04-11)
The ASKAP team has produced the first BETA spectral line image using six ASKAP antennas installed with innovative phased array feed (PAF) receiver systems, as part of ongoing commissioning tests at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. With the recently reconfigured hardware correlator and the six-antenna test array known as the Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA), an observation was made with up to six hours of data collected and analysed to create the first spectral line image, and data cube, with the ASKAP system that includes the recently online ASKAP Central Processor Cray supercomputer. Details about the target and the resulting image can be found in http://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/news_commissioning_10042014.html as well as in the latest ASKAP Commissioning Update.
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