Summer 2022 MWA update
The MWA team wishes you all happy holidays and a wonderful new year. Credit: ICRAR/Curtin.
Gearing up for the wind down
In the usual fashion for the MWA project, there was a flurry of activity in the ‘wind-down’ before Christmas.
Lots of recent action on site
We were proud to support the SKA-Low commencement of construction ceremony on 5 December. The event was held on the outskirts of the MWA telescope, where one of the SKA-Low telescope’s spiral arms will eventually be located.
Our site lead, Andrew McPhail, had a big hand in helping the event run smoothly on the day.
Our second new receiver
Andrew also orchestrated the recent installation of another new receiver for the MWA telescope!
The receivers have the all-important task of taking radio data from the antennas and digitising it to be read by computers.
The two new receivers are a welcome addition to the original fleet of 16, which have been operating for a decade in the field.
With every piece of new equipment, the MWA becomes a more capable and robust instrument, and we look forward to the science opportunities that our upgrades will uncover in 2023 and beyond.
Mia Walker, Project Officer, MWA
Two new receivers installed inside a shielded shipping container at the middle of the MWA telescope. Credit: Andrew McPhail, ICRAR/Curtin