Director ’ s update
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Director’s update
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
Lewis BallCASS Chief11 June 2013
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ATUC members
• John Dickey, UTAS (Chair)• James Allison, U Sydney• Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne• Ryan Shannon, CASS• Stephen Ord, ICRAR – Curtin• Minh Huynh, ICRAR – UWA• Tobias Westmeier, ICRAR – UWA• Sarah Reeves, U Sydney• Vikram Ravi, U Melbourne
• Chris Phillips (Secretary)
Thank you
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• Exciting science
• Vibrant and well resourced user community
• Technology advances
• SOC and remote operations
• New opportunities
• LOTS OF CHALLENGES
The big picture
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• SKA moving into engineering design phase• 3 years from ~ October 2013• Costed at: €90 million +
• 28 M€ for SKA Office staff and operations (30%)• 63 M€ for Work Package Consortia (70%)
• Most of work will be delivered by international consortia• Funded directly from member countries – funding will
not flow through SKAO or consortium leads• Bids submitted last week
SKA Pre-construction
Bidding consortia
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• Other major awards to• ICRAR - Curtin University (AA-low and CSP)• Aurecon (Infrastructure)
CSIRO/DIICCSRTE funding
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ASKAP• Now
• 36 antennas, infrastructure (except power)and fibre to Perth all complete.• PAF-PAF-PAF 3-beam image.• 4 PAFs on-site (Mk I) + single pixel feed
• Next• BETA (6 ants + Mk I PAFs + h/w correlator) • ADE prototyping underway• 6 Mk II PAFs installation early 2014• 12 Mk II PAFs installed + commissioned by end 2014
• Phase 2 funding• Secured $6M within CSIRO• Strong optimism for another $6M +12 Mk II PAFs = total 24 Mk II
Shared risk Partial array Unified program
Staged roll-out plan for Mk II PAFs 12 18 24 Construction and commissioning will retain priority
– Goal is to collect science data overnight (weekends) Continue through start of normal ASKAP operations (12 – 18 months) Single unified program (not fragmented proposals/projects) Immediate public data release following verification Seeking input and feed-back from SSTs and broader astronomy
community to help CASS design observing strategy
ASKAP Early Science
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ATNF operations
• 2013/14: Sufficient funds from CSIRO + CRIS to deliver Parkes + ATCA + 30% Mopra + ramp up of ASKAP
• Don’t expect an increase from CSIRO beyond that level• Further ramp up of ASKAP operations costs will be
partially offset by increased contribution from astro to science operations
• Remaining deficit (assuming ongoing external funds for Mopra and CRIS equivalent) is ~10% of total ops ($16.5m year + overheads)
• Must achieve further savingsor offset with external revenue
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Dual strategy
Even assuming funding from NCRIS 2 we will need:
•External funding for partial operations of Parkes and/or ATCA – The Mopra model(could also apply to ASKAP for 2015/16 and beyond)
•Further operations costs reductions for Parkes/ATCA e.g.• wideband receivers at Parkes, no receiver changes;• Further support and fault response reductions;• reduced observing duty cycle• LBA/ATCA capability reductions
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Thanks and best wishes
• Robert Braun• SKA Science Director• Manchester
• Carole Jackson• WA Premier’s Fellow• U Curtin
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Thank youAstronomy & Space ScienceLewis Ball
t +61 2 9372 4300E [email protected] www.csiro.au/cass
Astronomy and Space Science
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