Facilities
The University of Sydney operates three major facilities (MOST, SKAMP and SUSI) as listed below. In addition, members of SIfA regularly use other major Australian and international facilities. Links to these are given.
The University of Sydney is also a member of Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL), whose core business is to manage programmes that provide astronomers with access to national optical/infrared and radio astronomy infrastructure.
University of Sydney
- Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)
- SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP)
- The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI)
- Astrophotonics Laboratory
Major Australian facilities and projects we use and contribute to:
- Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT)
- Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
- Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (Tidbinbilla)
- GEMINI Australian Office
- Square Kilometre Array
- Murchison Widefield Array
Computational Facilities:
- Kosmos
- APAC
Other facilities we use:
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
- GEMINI
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
- European VLBI Network (EVN)
- International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL)
- Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)
- Keck Observatory
- Kepler space telescope
- Magellan Telescope
- Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN)
- Nanten Collaboration (ATSE & Nanten2)
- New Technology Telescope (NTT)
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Subaru Telescope
- SWIFT
- Very Large Array (VLA)
- Very Large Telescope (VLT)
- William Herschel Telescope (WHT)
- Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)
- XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory