Author: Marquarding, M.
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FRA3O01 Past, Present and Future of the ASKAP Monitoring and Control System 1162
 
  • M. Marquarding
    CASS, Epping, Australia
  
  The Aus­tralian Square Kilo­me­tre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is CSIRO's new radio tele­scope cur­rently under con­struc­tion and com­mis­sion­ing at the Murchi­son Ra­dio-as­tron­omy Ob­ser­va­tory (MRO) in the Mid West re­gion of West­ern Aus­tralia. The first six an­ten­nas equipped with the first gen­er­a­tion (or Mark-I) Phased Array Feeds (PAF) have been in com­mis­sion­ing since 2013. Twelve of the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion (Mark-II) PAFs are ex­pected to hit the ground late this year lead­ing into the start of the Early Sci­ence pro­gram. This paper will pre­sent the cur­rent sta­tus of the ASKAP pro­ject, in­clud­ing some ex­cit­ing re­sults com­ing from the com­mis­sion­ing ac­tiv­i­ties. This will en­com­pass the sta­tus of the mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol sys­tem, named the Tele­scope Op­er­at­ing Sys­tem (TOS), fu­ture de­vel­op­ments and some of the lessons learned dur­ing the early stages of the in­te­gra­tion and com­mis­sion­ing phase.  
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