About this Provider
Contact Information
- AAL Melbourne Office Rooms 828 and 829, Level 8 Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre (AMDC) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122
TYPE OF CLIENTS
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AAL supports Australian astronomers by:
- Providing access to major international observatories, enabling them to remain at the forefront of the discipline.
- Supporting the development and operation of new advanced instruments for current and next-generation telescopes.
- Developing new High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities and managing the allocation of time on national supercomputing resources for various branches of astronomy, as well as large-volume data processing.
- Advancing a long-term vision to create a Federation of National Astronomy Datasets that will give astronomers widespread access to multiwavelength data, to facilitate data-intensive research in astronomy and astrophysics.
HOW WE CAN HELP
AAL will facilitate access for Australian-based astronomers to the best research infrastructure, encourage the sharing of astronomical technical capabilities to maximise their value to the nation, and inspire Australians with these astronomical achievements.
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor instruments, located in WA
- Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency radio telescope with a front end consisting of 4,096 spider-like antennas arranged into 256 grids.
- CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a radio telescope consisting of 36 parabolic antennas working together as a single interferometer.
The Astralis Instrumentation Consortium is Australia’s leading astronomical instrumentation organisation, creating advanced technologies to explore and understand our universe. A combined team of astronomy experts across three major Australian universities make up the Astralis Instrumentation Consortium: Macquarie University, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney.
- High-Performance Computing aims to improve access to large scale computing resources for the Australian astronomy community.
- Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) aims to provide astronomy-focused training, support and expertise, allowing astronomers to maximise the scientific return from data and computing infrastructure.
- The All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO) has five nodes to maximise science extracted from astronomical data, enabling researchers to access data across a federated network from all types of astronomical facilities in Australia. The five ASVO nodes are: TAO, MWA, Skymapper, CASDA (CSIRO) and Data Central.
- The Optical Data Centre (ODC) is a data archive and management service for all optical datasets of major national significance.
- The Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) provides infrastructure, training and support for Australian researchers to engage in gravitational wave science through access to data from international gravitational wave detectors.
AAL supports the Australian Government’s engagement with European Southern Observatory (ESO) and SKA. Internationally, AAL engages with the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Vera C. Rubin Observatory), the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and eROSITA.
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Excellence Driven and Application Based
Access to AAL funded infrastructure with finite resources, such as telescopes and high performance computing, is either granted via periodic application rounds to which individuals or small teams apply. Applications are then ranked on scientific merit and appropriateness for the instrument (application based/excellence based).
Open Access
Portions of AAL funded infrastructure are devoted to larger scale projects spanning multi-years that are related to the original instrument science case and are excellence based. Any Australian based astronomer may apply periodically for instrument time, or apply to join a large scale project (open access).
AAL also funds data portals which host historical datasets in a convenient and accessible form that is open to all.
Open Access, Time Limited Embargo
The data captured through access to AAL funded infrastructure with limited resources, such as telescopes and high performance computing, is usually subject to a time embargo to allow applicants to publish. Thereafter the data is open access and is available to all members of the astronomical community.
AAL also funds data portals which host historical datasets in a convenient and accessible form that is open to all.
