In October, AusSRC held its first ever Perth Astrofest stall, with an activity showing how data will flow from the SKA-Low in the Murchison to other SRCs around the world – in the form of a marble race!

Birli is the Wajarri word for ‘lightning’, a common cause of outages on the MWA site. Birli is the next generation MWA pre-processing pipeline which is now feature complete.

Based at ICRAR and CSIRO in Perth, the Australian SKA Regional Centre (shortened to AusSRC, “Oz-S.R.C.”) is the Australian contingent of an international network of SKA Regional Centres. These Centres will be a global computing and data delivery network that will provide the connection between the SKA telescopes and the science community.

SKA 101: Australia’s involvement Australia will host the SKA Observatory’s low frequency telescope (SKA-Low). SKA-Low will comprise an array of 131,072 ‘Christmas tree-shaped’ antennas, grouped