The challenge – Speeding up radio astronomy
Radio telescopes use specialised cameras, called receivers, to detect and amplify faint radio waves from space. Most of these cameras only see a small part of the sky at once, which makes surveying large parts of the sky a time-consuming process.
For more than a decade we’ve been developing receivers with a larger field-of-view, and these have been used on Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, as well as other world-leading instruments.
Our response
Phased array feeds – a radical new approach to radio astronomy
For our newest radio telescope, ASKAP, we’ve developed innovative ‘phased array feed’ receivers with a wide field-of-view.
