fast radio bursts<\/a> and two sporadically emitting neutron stars, as well as improved location data of four pulsars enabled by the new technology. They have since gone on to find more than twenty fast radio bursts.<\/p>\nDiscovering more fast radio bursts than ever before<\/h3>\n Dr Andy Wang from ICRAR, who led the research group and tested CRACO, said the team had found more signals from space than expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were focused on finding fast radio bursts, a mysterious phenomenon that has opened up a new field of research in astronomy,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cCRACO is enabling us to find these bursts better than ever before. We have been searching for bursts 100 times per second, and in the future, we expect this will increase to 1,000 times per second.\u201d<\/p>\n
CSIRO astronomer and engineer Dr Keith Bannister, who helped develop the instrument, says the scale of observation enabled by the new technology is enormous.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cCRACO taps into ASKAP\u2019s \u2018live\u2019 view of the sky in search of fast radio bursts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do this, it scans through huge volumes of data \u2013 processing 100 billion pixels per second \u2013 to detect and identify the location of bursts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the equivalent of sifting through a whole beach of sand to look for a single five-cent coin every minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s position in space research<\/h3>\n CRACO is made up of a cluster of computers and accelerators connected to the ASKAP radio telescope at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wajarri Yamaji Country.<\/p>\n
The development of this technology reinforces Australia\u2019s international reputation as a leader in radio astronomy engineering and research.<\/p>\n
CRACO has been engineered to sift through the trillions of pixels received by the telescope to find anomalies, alerting researchers the moment it spots something out of the ordinary, allowing them to quickly follow up to obtain more data and complete their own analysis.<\/p>\n
Dr Wang and his team increasingly expanded CRACO\u2019s research targets to find more exotic sources.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also detecting long-period transients, which remain mysterious objects within our galaxy. Both fast radio bursts and these transients were first discovered in Australia, so it is great that we\u2019re continuing the path of discovery with this impressive technology,\u201d Dr Wang said.<\/p>\n
CRACO will soon be made available to astronomers all over the world as part of CSIRO\u2019s Australia Telescope National Facility, a suite of national research infrastructure which includes Murriyang, CSIRO\u2019s Parkes radio telescope.<\/p>\n
The CRACO system was developed through collaboration between CSIRO and Australian and international researchers and was partially funded through an Australian Research Council grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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