The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is the newest and most ambitious telescope built in Australia in this decade. It is the first radio telescope to use a new technology: the phased-array feed, invented and developed at the CSIRO – ATNF. The ASKAP telescope will investigate several of the big unanswered questions in astronomy.
Professor Dickey will review the goals of the project, both technical and scientific, with particular concentration on his own survey of interstellar hydrogen in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds and Stream: the Galactic ASKAP Survey (GASKAP).
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