ATCA/Mopra reportPhil Edwards

ATUC meeting 6 November 2007

Monday 13 Aug 2007

7mm system

• 7mm automatic translators operational

• ATCA calibrator database being updated with C007 data

Courtesy: Lovell

ATCA issues• On-line safety inductions for all visitors• CA01 azimuth oscillations reduced• Dry air added to all 12mm feed horns• New 3mm receiver with noise cal on CA02 • Shutdown for CABB in APR08 semester

CA02 October 2007

CA02 October 2007

WVRs

• Prototype Water Vapour Radiometers already installed on CA03 and CA04

• ARC LIEF funding received, subject to ATNF PRB approval, to outfit all antennas with improved WVRs

• New chklev command in caobs for mm observing (see the ATCA Current Issues webpage)

• Investigation of UCHII regions as 7mm and 3mm amplitude calibrators (thanks to AT20G)

• On-going NASA tracks to demonstrate readiness for 32 GHz spacecraft tracking

• Site generators used to relieve grid during occasional peak periods

Courtesy: Ellingsen & Breen

Mopra issues• Successful mm season • Installation of 7mm receiver over the summer• Replacement of Mopra UPS over the summer• Characterisation testing in progress• Mopra-Darnhall 12,300km VLBI baseline!

• More details from http://www.csiro.au/news/TelescopeNetworks.html

EXPReS

• ATCA, Mopra, Parkes real-time transfer of VLBI data at 512 Mbps to the JIVE correlator

• 12-hour 21cm observation of SN1987A, October 8th

• More details from http://www.expres-eu.org/

Courtesy: Tingay

IC5063: AGN driven outflow of warm and cold gas Morganti, Holt, Saripalli, Oosterloo, Tadhunter, A&A, in press (arXiv:0710.1189)

ATCA observations of the very young Planetary Nebula SAO 244567 Umana, Trigilio, Cerrigone, Buemi, Leto, Submitted to MNRAS (arXiv:0710.1145)

The extragalactic radio-source population at 95 GHz Sadler, Ricci, Ekers, Sault, Jackson, De Zotti, Submitted to MNRAS, (arXiv:0709.3563)

An ATCA 20cm Radio Continuum Study of the Large Magellanic Cloud Hughes, Staveley-Smith, Kim, Wolleben, Filipović, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:0709.1990)

ATCA 1.2 cm Observations of the Massive Star Forming Region G305.2+0.2 Walsh, Chapman, Burton, Wardle, Millar, (arXiv:0707.2622)

The VSOP 5 GHz Active Galactic Nucleus Survey: V. Imaging Results for the Remaining 140 sources Dodson, Fomalont, Wiik, Horiuchi, Hirabayashi, et al., ApJS, in press (arXiv:0710.5707)

The Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey: The Bright Source Sample Massardi, Ekers, Murphy, Ricci, Sadler, Burke, et al., Submitted to MNRAS (arXiv:0709.3485)

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