News from 2003

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November 2003

• First interferometer data is generated. A continuum source sampled with 1 MHz bandwidth was recorded at 'Parkes' and 'Tidbinbila', with the correct geometric delays. A quick-and-dirty cross-correlation showed a signal was detected!

October 2003

• Dr Shinji Horiuchi joins the group from JPL as a postdoc.
• First results from the VLBI recording system. The methonol maser 345.010+1.79 was observed and data recorded on an Apple XRaid disc system through our new VSIB & VSIC boards.

August 2003

• First fringes from the software correlator running under a multi-processor environment on the supercomputer.

July 2003

• The international SKA conference to be held in Geraldton, Australia from 28 July 2003 - 1 August 2003 was a strong and positive success.

May 2003

• The Australian SKA Simulation Working Group met in Swinburne on 23 May 2003 to coincide with a visit by the SKA International Project Director, Richard Schilizzi.

April 2003

• Dr Richard Ogley joins the group from Keele University as a postdoc.

March 2003

• First stable fringes from the software correlator.

January 2003

• Dr Steven Tingay joins the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing SKA Simulation and Radio Interferometry Group.