Seminar @ DF-AS - J. Monari - Installation of the SKA Aperture Array Verification 1

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05/25/2018 - 11:30
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05/25/2018 - 12:30
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05/21/2018
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Trieste

In this talk I will present AAVS1 (Aperture Array Verification 1), telling the vicissitudes of the INAF team during the first installation in Australia of the first prototype station with 256 antennas, in the missions held in March, August and November 2017. The installation was in the deep Australian outback in the Murchison region that is hosting the country for the Square Kilometer Array program, the low frequency radio telescope of the future, which will count at least 128,000 antennas distributed in 5000Kmq at the end of phase 1 of the program (2024). The presentation in Italian will be introduced by a general overview of the program with a surprise ending …

 

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Villa Bazzoni

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