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ATUC, Marsfield
Phil Diamond, Chief of Division28 June 2011
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
ATNF: Director’s Update
CASS Mission
• To operate and develop the Australia Telescope as a national research facility for use by Australian and international researchers
• To exploit the facility’s unique southern location and technological advantages to maintain its position as a world-class radio astronomy observatory
• To meet NASA’s needs for continuous communication with its fleet of spacecraft throughout our solar system, and thereby contribute to humankind’s understanding of space
• To further the advancement of knowledge
CASS Divisional Sites
MRO
RadiophysicsLaboratory
GeraldtonPawsey HPC Centre
GeraldtonParkes
Narrabri
Mopra
Tidbinbilla
ATNF Steering CommitteeMet in Parkes on 9-11 May
Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA: Chairman)
Brian Schmidt (ANU)
Rachel Webster (UMelb)
Jackie Hewitt (MIT)
Michael Kramer (MPIfR)
Nan Rendong (NAOC)
Alan Brien (Scitech)
Jim Noble (ex-Defence)
Ex-officio:
Matthew Colless (AAO)
Ian Opperman (CSIRO ICTC)
Alex Zelinsky (CSIRO IS Group Exec)
National Facilities: Assessments of Quality
• Australia Telescope National Facility:• ATNF is second most productive radio astronomy facility in the world (by papers published) • ATCA #2 in citations/paper
• Parkes #3 in citations/paper
• Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex:• NASA’s best-performing DSN station• Mission Critical support for 45 spacecraft exploring the solar system, fleet valued at ~US$17B• Data integrity >99.75%
Future of ATNF operations
CSIRO budget is finalised tomorrow.
It will take us a little while to finalise the
CASS budget.
Hoping to make announcement on
13th July
Parkes 50th Anniversary
• Oct 31, 2011 marks 50th anniversary of the first science observations with Parkes.
SKA Activities
• Founding Board created in April 2011
• 9 countries signed initially (UK, NL, DE, FR, IT, CN, AU, NZ, RSA)
• On-going activities to establish full legal entity with Governing Council (a la ESO Council); won’t quite be able to sign at SKA Forum
• Jodrell Bank, UK announced as HQ of new SKA Project Office
• Project Execution Plan (PEP) developed, requires 90 Meuro to resource
• Aus Govt will provide $40.2M for PEP and related activities, only if site decision goes our way
• Meetings already held in Aus to decide how best we will participate in PEP
• RQZ report for site decision submitted 30 June
• Full submission document submitted on 15th September
• Documents reviewed by independent committee of experts, decision on 29th February 2012 by SKA Governing Council
Contact UsPhone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176Email: [email protected] Web: www.csiro.au
Thank you
CSIRO Astronomy and Space SciencePhilip DiamondChief
Phone: +61 2 9372 4300Email: [email protected] Web: www.csiro.au/org/CASS