Friday, 9 November 2012
Australia's newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies, say scientists - including astronomers from The University of Western Australia - planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).
In a paper ‘ Predictions for ASKAP Neutral Hydrogen Surveys' to be published Sunday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Australian researchers have combined computer simulations with ASKAP's specifications to predict the new telescope's extraordinary capabilities.
ASKAP will start scanning southern skies in 2013 as a forerunner to the massive Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be shared between Australia-New Zealand and Southern Africa.
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Kirsten Gottschalk
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Michael Sinclair-Jones
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