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Australian SKA Planning Office
Newsletter 1, August 2005

This is the first of a series of Newsletters to keep interested par ties informed about the progress of activities in Australia related to the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Fur ther information on the SKA project can be found on the international SKA website at www.skatelescope.org. Formation of Australian SKA Planning Office
As the SKA project gains momentum in Australia, the Australian SKA Planning Office (ASPO) has been formed within CSIRO ATNF to implement the policy of the Australasian SKA Consor tium and to manage the coordination of SKA activity within Australia. Contact people for the different spheres of activity within ASPO are listed below.
mage: Chris Fluke, Centre for Astrophysics and upercomputing, Swinburne University / CVA

Australian SKA Director : Professor Brian Boyle Brian.Boyle@csiro.au ASPO Leader, ASPO Government Liaison, and Site Liaison: Dr Michelle Storey Michelle.Storey@csiro.au ASPO Industr y Liaison: Dr Carole Jackson Carole.Jackson@csiro.au ASPO Science Liaison: Dr Simon Johnston Simon.Johnston@csiro.au ASPO Communications: Ms Helen Sim Helen.Sim@csiro.au For more information: Michelle Storey Michelle.Storey@csiro.au

the SKA has been endor sed by the Electronic Industr y Action Agenda Implementation Group. The follow-up activities will include regular briefings to Minister McFar lane , DITR, on progress. As a result ASPO, in par tner ship with AEEMA, is initiating the `SKA cluster mapping project'. This project will initiate a networ k of Australian companies with exper tise in SKA electronics technologies, including a database of contacts and capabilities, foster R&D of critical SKA technologies with industr y, as well as exploring commercial applications of SKA R&D. For more information: Dr Carole Jackson Carole.Jackson@csiro.au

WA State funding for radio astronomy in the Mid West
The Western Australian State Government announced at the end of May that it has allocated $4M in fur ther suppor t for the radio astronomy projects at the Australian candidate SKA site. The money, earmar ked in the State Budget for 2005/06, will fund infrastr ucture for radio astronomy projects at Mileura. These include ATNF's 20-dish extended New Technology Demonstrator radio telescope, and the Low Frequency Demonstrator project being led by MIT Haystack Obser vator y in the US. CSIRO, the ATNF's host organisation, has already committed $15M over three year s for developing the NTD technology into the extended New Technology Demonstrator telescope (xNTD). For more information: Dr Michelle Storey Michelle.Storey@csiro.au

Australian industry group endorses SKA Cluster Mapping Project
A project to determine Australian industr y's capabilities towards the SKA has been endor sed by the Australian Electronics Industr y Action Agenda Implementation Group at its June 2005 meeting. Action Agendas are Australian Government-Industr y par tner ship initiatives to realize oppor tunities of international mar kets and new technologies. Through contact with the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturer s' Association (AEEMA) ASPO identified the Electronics Industr y Action Agenda as being most relevant to the SKA project. AEEMA is the peak body representing Australia's information and communication technology (ICT), electronics and electrical manufacturing industries. With AEEMA's suppor t, a project to map industr y capability for

Science meetings
On 6 April the ATNF held a one-day meeting to canvass the science possible with the `extended New Technology Demonstrator'--the second phase of the NTD project. The current specifications for the xNTD are for 20 dishes, continued over page

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each of 15-m diameter and with a focal-plane array consisting of 100 elements operating over a frequency range of 800-1700 MHz, yielding a fieldof-view on the sky of about 40 square degrees at 1.4 GHz. On 7 June the ATNF hosted a symposium to review science and technology results arising from Major National Research Facilities funding granted by the Australian Government in 2001. About half of this funding has been directed to SKA technology development. The meeting reviewed progress in SKA simulations, RFI testing of the Mileura site in Western Australia, the SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) project, configurations for the Australian SKA site bid, and development of the Compact Array Broadband Backend, MMICs (monolithic microwave integrated circuits), and focal-plane arrays. For more information: Dr Simon Johnston Simon.Johnston@csiro.au

If you would like to become a member of the Australian SKA email group to receive information about SKA activities and events, please contact Dr Michelle Storey Michelle .Storey@csiro.au

Contact ASPO
Phone Web +61-2-9372-4100 www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/ska

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