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ATNF: Australia Telescope National Facility - Advancing Radio Astronomy and Space Science

The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is a leading radio astronomy observatory, operating the Australia Telescope and supporting NASA's communication needs. We strive to maintain our position as a world-class facility and contribute to advancements in knowledge and understanding of space.

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ATNF: Australia Telescope National Facility - Advancing Radio Astronomy and Space Science

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  1. ATUC, MarsfieldPhil Diamond, Chief of Division28 June 2011 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science ATNF: Director’s Update

  2. CASS Mission • To operate and develop the Australia Telescope as a national research facility for use by Australian and international researchers • To exploit the facility’s unique southern location and technological advantages to maintain its position as a world-class radio astronomy observatory • To meet NASA’s needs for continuous communication with its fleet of spacecraft throughout our solar system, and thereby contribute to humankind’s understanding of space • To further the advancement of knowledge

  3. Parkes Tidbinbilla CASS Divisional Sites Narrabri Mopra MRO Radiophysics Laboratory Geraldton Pawsey HPC Centre Geraldton

  4. ATNF Steering CommitteeMet in Parkes on 9-11 May Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA: Chairman) Brian Schmidt (ANU) Rachel Webster (UMelb) Jackie Hewitt (MIT) Michael Kramer (MPIfR) Nan Rendong (NAOC) Alan Brien (Scitech) Jim Noble (ex-Defence) Ex-officio: Matthew Colless (AAO) Ian Opperman (CSIRO ICTC) Alex Zelinsky (CSIRO IS Group Exec)

  5. Organizational structure

  6. National Facilities: Assessments of Quality • Australia Telescope National Facility: • ATNF is second most productive radio astronomy facility in the world (by papers published) • ATCA #2 in citations/paper • Parkes #3 in citations/paper • Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex: • NASA’s best-performing DSN station • Mission Critical support for 45 spacecraft exploring the solar system, fleet valued at ~US$17B • Data integrity >99.75%

  7. Future of ATNF operations CSIRO budget is finalised tomorrow. It will take us a little while to finalise the CASS budget. Hoping to make announcement on 13th July

  8. Some statistics: Publication numbers

  9. Some statistics: Publications by facility

  10. Some statistics: PhD students

  11. Recent statistics: publications by CASS staff

  12. Parkes 50th Anniversary • Oct 31, 2011 marks 50th anniversary of the first science observations with Parkes.

  13. Parkes 50th Anniversary

  14. SKA Activities • Founding Board created in April 2011 • 9 countries signed initially (UK, NL, DE, FR, IT, CN, AU, NZ, RSA) • On-going activities to establish full legal entity with Governing Council (a la ESO Council); won’t quite be able to sign at SKA Forum • Jodrell Bank, UK announced as HQ of new SKA Project Office • Project Execution Plan (PEP) developed, requires 90 Meuro to resource • Aus Govt will provide $40.2M for PEP and related activities, only if site decision goes our way • Meetings already held in Aus to decide how best we will participate in PEP • RQZ report for site decision submitted 30 June • Full submission document submitted on 15th September • Documents reviewed by independent committee of experts, decision on 29th February 2012 by SKA Governing Council

  15. CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Philip Diamond Chief Phone: +61 2 9372 4300 Email:phil.diamond@csiro.au Web:www.csiro.au/org/CASS Thank you Contact UsPhone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176Email: Enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au

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