Propuesta de Telescopio

1. Information for Thursday’s Afternoon Session

During this session, we will work in small groups to develop and submit an observing proposal for the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) or the Mopra Telescope.

Each group will choose one of the following four projects to work through:

Before the session, you will need to register an account with the ATNF online proposal system (OPAL, http://opal.atnf.csiro.au). OPAL registrations will open on Wednesday 29th July.

2. Example Proposals

Several example telescope proposals (in some cases with feedback from the Time Allocation Committee) are attached to the bottom of this page.

3. List of Recommended Webpages

Before the session, please spend some time familiarising yourself with the technical capabilities and online observing tools of ATCA and Mopra by browsing the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) website.

Telescope Information

General Information about Observing with ATNF

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/

ATCA Information and User Guide

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/users_guide/html/atug.html

Mopra Information and User Guide

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/mopra/

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/mopra/obsinfo.html

Online Tools that are useful for preparing an ATCA/Mopra observing proposal

COORD – calculates rise/set times of astronomical sources

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/cgi-bin/utilities/coord.cgi

Rest Frequencies of Commonly Observed Atomic and Molecular Emission Lines

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/spectral.html

Velocity-to-Frequency Calculator – calculates sky frequency of spectral lines

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/obstools/velo.html

Mopra Mapping Sensitivity Calculator – calculates integration time for Mopra maps

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/mopra/sensitivity_mopra_otf.html

Mopra Sensitivity Calculator - calculates integration time for Mopra single pointing observations

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/mopra/sensitivity_mopra_pswitch.html

ATCA Observing Characteristics Calculator – calculates integration time and angular resolution

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/docs/at_sens/

ATCA Virtual Radio Interferometer - tool for simulating (u,v) coverage

http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/astronomy/vri.html

Sites that require OPAL registration (accessible after Monday 27th July)

ATOA – the online ATNF Data Archive

http://atoa.atnf.csiro.au

OPAL – the online ATNF Proposal System

http://opal.atnf.csiro.au/