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 Lewis.Ball@csiro.auw www.csiro.au/cass

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