12/2012 |
- Feasibility study for software correlator commences.
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02/2013 |
- First 10 Gbps packets received from PFBs (polyphase filterbanks).
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04/2013 |
- First pulsar detection.
- First prototype filter board constructed.
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06/2013
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- Installation of Swinburne’s 22 GPU supercomputer and switches at Molonglo.
- Optical fibre lengths along arms re-measured.
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07/2013
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- First production RX box passes spec in the lab.
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09/2013
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- First prototype RX box deployed to field.
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10/2013
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- First production filter boards deployed.
- Fibre patch board in the Burst Room completed.
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11/2013
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- 11-bay deployment along East arm with production RX boxes and filters.
- Vela pulsar observations in incoherent mode.
- New station atomic clock installed.
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12/2013
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- Cooling fans deployed into all bay enclosures and new fans for FPGA cooling.
- Antennae alignment to meridian in RX equipped bays.
- First RX production board deployed.
- 16-module simultaneous pulsar observations.
- 22-bay deployment of RX boxes completed.
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01/2014 |
- 52-module simultaneous pulsar observations.
- TIME project commences on the Vela pulsar (~20 microsecond residuals).
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02/2014 |
- First fringes between bays achieved on 3C273.
- Feb 28th – Fringes on every baseline!
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03/2014 |
- Meridian drive alignment starts in earnest — first few aligned modules show much improved S/N on Vela.
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04/2014 |
- First big rollout week: Matthew, Shivani, Chris, Fabian, Frank and Manisha at Molonglo for 2 weeks.
- 14 pulsars seen in individual bays – a new record.
- Vela seen on 76 modules — a new record.
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05/2014 |
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07/2014 |
- Sentinel mode operates successfully for the first time
- Hired cherry picker increases the MD servicing rate by a factor of ~3
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08/2014 |
- Swinburne team visit for 1 week (Chris, Matthew, Shivani, Vivek and Manisha)
- Major testing of telescope pointing and the correlator
- We run a mode where all 352 modules take data and fold Vela simultaneously
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09/2014 |
- Swinburne team back for 1 week (Chris, Matthew, Tim, Vivek)
- Plans developed for installation of new telescope pointing control system
- First measure of Meridian Gain curve with Vela
- First tied array beam on a pulsar!
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10/2014
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11/2014
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01/2015 |
- Glitch in Vela confirmed – monitoring continues
- Monitoring of radio transients seen at MWA
- Successful shadowing of DECam in Chile at the Blanco telescope, using Parkes to trigger data dumps
- Single burst archives of Vela live in tied array beam mode
- Individual pulses from Vela seen live
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02/2015 |
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03/2015 |
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04/2015 |
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05/2015 |
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06/2015 |
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08/2015 |
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10/2015 |
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11/2015 |
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01/2016 |
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02/2016 |
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03/2017 |
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08/2017 |
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03/2018 |
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05/2019 |
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05/2019 |
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