• Search software/pipeline development: Keith, Bhat, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Ransom, Stairs, Burgay, Crawford

• Survey data management: Crawford, ???
• Outreach & Community benefit: Becker, Hobbs, Burgay, Crawford

• Simulations of optimal observing patterns, backend types and integration times, given telescope configuration, FOV, number of tied beams, known pulsars, propagation effects: Bailes, Chatterjee, Cordes, Kaspi, Lorimer, Shannon, Smits, Stappers, Stairs, van Leeuwen, Possenti, Stappers, Lazio

• Verification of integrity of beams formed by beamformers on BETA and ASKAP: Johnston, Kaspi, Stairs, Stappers

• Pulsar timing backend software provision and troubleshooting: Bailes, Hotan, Kramer, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Manchester, Stairs, van Leeuwen, van Straten

Here we list the names assigned to each of the general aspects of the ASKAP pulsar proposal. It has been recommended that teams are formed with a specific person appointed to be the chairperson for each group (that is perform some form of management role).

It’s likely that the ‘simulation’ aspect may need to be further refined into some sub-projects as this is likely to be a core aspect of the initial part of the work and relies on many different sets of skills.

• Simulations of optimal observing patterns, backend types and integration times, given telescope configuration, FOV, number of tied beams, known pulsars, propagation effects: Bailes, Chatterjee, Cordes, Kaspi, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Shannon, Smits, Stappers, Stairs, van Leeuwen, Possenti, Stappers, Lazio

• B. Stappers: ~50% post-doc

• J. Lazio: ~50% post-doc
• A. Posentti: ~1 student or equivalent time
• M. Burgay: ~1 student or equivalent time
• M. Kramer: ~20% post-doc

• Liaison with other ASKAP EoI teams: Hotan, Stairs, Colgate, Chatterjee

• Simulations of optimal observing patterns, backend types and integration times, given telescope configuration, FOV, number of tied beams, known pulsars, propagation effects: Bailes, Chatterjee, Cordes, Kaspi, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Shannon, Smits, Stappers, Stairs, van Leeuwen, Possenti, Stappers, Lazio
• Investigation of required vs. calibratable polarization purity Manchester, van Straten, Colgate
• Pulsar timing backend hardware provision, implementation and troubleshooting Bailes, Kramer, Manchester, Stairs, Stappers, van Leeuwen
• Pulsar timing backend software provision and troubleshooting: Bailes, Hotan, Kramer, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Manchester, Stairs, Stappers, van Leeuwen, van Straten

• Multiwavelength follow-up Becker, Chatterjee, Kaspi, Rea, Torres, Arzoumanian
• Search software/pipeline development: Keith, Bhat, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Ransom, Stairs, Burgay
• Search instrumentation development: Majid, Stairs, van Straten
• Survey data management: ???
• Outreach & Community benifit: Becker, Hobbs, Burgay

Here I approximate the time contributions that people have suggested that they might be able to contribute to the project: J. Lazio: ~50% post-doc A. Posentti: ~1 student or equivalent time M. Burgay: ~1 student or equivalent time M. Kramer: ~20% post-doc

We have created a web forum that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion.

Pulsar ASKAP Team Organisation

Generic Areas of Interest

• Science team point of contact: Stairs
• Liaison between science team and ASKAP engineers: Keith, Hobbs
• Liaison with other ASKAP EoI teams: Hotan, Stairs

• Verification of integrity of beams formed by beamformers on BETA and ASKAP: Johnston, Kaspi, Stairs
• Simulations of optimal observing patterns, backend types and integration times, given telescope configuration, FOV, number of tied beams, known pulsars, propagation effects: Bailes, Chatterjee, Cordes, Kaspi, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Shannon, Smits, Stappers, Stairs, van Leeuwen, Possenti, Stappers
• Investigation of required vs. calibratable polarization purity Manchester, van Straten
• Pulsar timing backend hardware provision, implementation and troubleshooting Bailes, Colegate, Kondratiev, Kramer, Manchester, Stairs, Stappers, van Leeuwen
• Pulsar timing backend software provision and troubleshooting: Bailes, Hotan, Kramer, Lorimer, Manchester, Stairs, Stappers, van Leeuwen, van Straten
• Pulsar timing data pipeline software, including planning insertion of data into archive: Bailes, Becker, Hobbs, Hotan, Kaspi, Kondratiev, Lorimer, Majid, Nice, Possenti, Stairs, van Straten
• Multiwavelength follow-up Becker, Chatterjee, Kaspi, Rea, Torres

Specific contributions of time and resources

• Other web-sites are being developed for other ASKAP projects (see, e.g. ASKAP HI Survey page)

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008) and more details are provided in Science with ASKAP (Accepted by Experimental Astronomy; 112 pages). ASKAP will contain 36 antennas each 12m in diameter, capable of high dynamic range imaging and using wide-field-of-view phased array feeds.

The ASKAP team has called for “expressions of interest”. These are be 4-page documents containing a basic description of a particular project for ASKAP. Full descriptions of these expressions of interest are available here. The ASKAP team will consider these expressions-of-interest on technical feasibility and the members of all successful projects will be asked to send in a detailed proposal for consideration.

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008) and more details were provided in Science with ASKAP (Accepted by Experimental Astronomy; 112 pages). ASKAP will contain 36 antennas each 12m in diameter, capable of high dynamic range imaging and using wide-field-of-view phased array feeds.

• Leadership of ASKAP projects is open access to astronomers world-wide. Proposals with overseas leaders are therefore strongly encouraged.

We have created a web forum that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and here for surveys). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the forum, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a web forum that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and here for surveys). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the forum, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and here for surveys). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and here for surveys). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and ). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and ). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up (here for timing projects and here for surveys). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Anyone interested in becoming a team member should sign up ( and ). Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

• Leadership of ASKAP projects is open access to astronomers world-wide.

Proposals with overseas leaders are therefore strongly encouraged.

In the very near future the ASKAP team will call for “expressions of interest” (details will be linked from this wiki as soon as they are available). These will be 4-page documents containing a basic description of a particular project for ASKAP. The ASKAP team will consider these expressions-of-interest on technical feasibility and the members of all successful projects will be asked to send in a detailed proposal for consideration.

In the very near future the ASKAP team will call for “expressions of interest” (details will be linked from this wiki as soon as they are available). These will be short 4-page documents containing a basic description of a particular project for ASKAP. The ASKAP team will consider these expressions-of-interest on technical feasibility and the members of all successful projects will be asked to send in a detailed proposal for consideration.

In the very near future the ASKAP team will call for “expressions of interest” (details will be linked from this wiki as soon as they are available). These will be short 4-page documents containing a basic description of a particular project for ASKAP. The ASKAP team will consider these espressions-of-interest on technical feasibility and the members of all successful projects will be asked to send in a detailed proposal for consideration.

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008). ASKAP will contain 36 antennas each 12m in diameter, capable of high dynamic range imaging and using wide-field-of-view phased array feeds.

The expressions-of-interest

In the very near future the ASKAP team will call for “expressions of interest”. These will be short 4-page documents containing a basic description of a particular project for ASKAP. The ASKAP team will consider these espressions-of-interest on technical feasibility and the members of all successful projects will be asked to send in a detailed proposal for consideration.

These expressions-of-interest need to be written on a very short time scale and therefore it is essential to start work now. We need to:

• Define which projects the pulsar community wishes to put forward (e.g. pulsar timing, pulsar searching, etc.)
• Nominate a team leader for each project
• Determine team members for each project and the role of each individual
• Determine the technical feasibility and define the required hardware/software for each project
• Write and submit the expression-of-interest

Some notes:

• It is expected that each proposal will have at least one member of the ATNF somewhere on the proposal to help liase between the team members and the engineering designing and building ASKAP.
• It is hoped that the project leaders will not be members of the ATNF although ATNF pulsar group members will consider such a role if nobody else wishes to lead.
• Other web-sites are being developed for other ASKAP projects (see, e.g. ASKAP HI Survey page

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008).

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008).

ASKAP

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will be built in Western Australia and operational by ~2013. The project is led by CSIRO ATNF in collaboration with scientists and engineers in Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany, as well as colleagues from a number of Australian universities and industry partners. The aim of this wiki page is to provide information about the ASKAP telescope and to start discussion on submitting some “expressions of interest” for pulsar related projects using ASKAP.

We have created a new email distribution list (GIVE DETAILS!) that should be used for general comments, queries and discussion. Currently there is nobody leading any of the pulsar projects on ASKAP and anyone in the community should feel free to post messages to the distribution list, update this wiki page or to put themselves forward for leading an ASKAP project.

The expressions of interest

ASKAP details

The main ASKAP web-site can be found here. An overview of the “Science with ASKAP” is given in Johnston et al. (2008).