Recent Science from Australian Large-Scale Millimetre Mapping Projects: Proceedings from a Swinburne University Workshop
Since the recent upgrades to the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Mopra telescope back-end and receiver system, it has risen from an undersubscribed facility to a sought-after instrument with heavy international competition to gain time. Furthermore, the introduction of the on-the-flymap...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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CSIRO
2009
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| Online Access: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8837802&jid=PAS&volumeId=26&issueId=02&aid=8837800&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession= http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27652 |
| Summary: | Since the recent upgrades to the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Mopra telescope back-end and receiver system, it has risen from an undersubscribed facility to a sought-after instrument with heavy international competition to gain time. Furthermore, the introduction of the on-the-flymapping capability in 2004 has made this technique one of Mopra's most popular observing modes. In addition, the recent upgrade of the NANTEN millimetre-wavelength telescope to the sub-millimetre NANTEN2 instrument, has provided a complementary, higher-frequency facility to Mopra. A two-dayworkshop was held at Swinburne University in June 2008 to disseminate the current state of ongoing large-scale mapping projects and associated spin-offs that the telescopes' upgrades have facilitated, and to decide upon future research directions. Here, we provide a summary of the result-oriented talks as a record of the state of Australian-access single-dish millimetre science in 2008. |
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