DATE: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:43:48 +1000
SUBJECT: ATUC CABB Science Meeting 13th May



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Dear Users of the Australia Telescope National Facility,

The Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB) upgrade will provide
a new broadband backend system for the ATCA. The maximum bandwidth
of the ATCA will be increased from the current 128-MHz to 2-GHz, a
factor of 16 improvement. This will improve the continuum sensitivity
of the ATCA by at least a factor of four as well as providing a greatly
enhanced spectral line performance, particularly at the higher observing
frequencies. The wider bandwidth will allow projects studying spectral
lines within a 2-GHz band to be carried out simultaneously.

As part of the upcoming meeting of the Australia Telescope Users  
Committee
on the 14th and 15th May, an ATUC Science Day devoted to CABB will be
held on May 13th. Details of the meeting follow.

ATUC science day: CABB
DATE: 13 May 2009
TIME: 10:30 - 16:00
LOCATION: ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre

For catering purposes, please RSVP to Anne Barends (Anne.Barends@csiro.au 
).

The program will include a technical description of CABB, advice on  
how to
prepare for observations, observing itself and some early science  
reports
and a recorded observing demonstration.

More information on CABB can be found on the ATNF Narrabri site:

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

More information on ATUC can be found on the ATNF site:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/management/atuc/


Regards,
Stacy Mader (for)
Sarah Maddison
ATUC Chair