S. Mackay

TL;DR: The Boolardy test array as discussed by the authors is a prototype of the Australian square kilometre array pathfinder telescope with a six-antenna interferometer, fitted with prototype signal processing hardware capable of forming at least nine dual-polarisation beams simultaneously.

TL;DR: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope as mentioned in this paper is one of the first radio telescopes to deploy phased array feed (PAF) technology on a large scale, giving it an instantaneous field of view that covers and is expected to facilitate great advances in our understanding of galaxy formation, cosmology, and radio transients while opening new parameter space for discovery of the unknown.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the discovery of a 21-cm H I absorption system using commissioning data from the Boolardy Engineering Test Array of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).

TL;DR: The Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) as discussed by the authors is the first aperture synthesis radio telescope to use phased array feed technology, giving it the ability to electronically form up to nine dual-polarisation beams.

TL;DR: The Boolardy Engineering Test Array is the first aperture synthesis radio telescope to use phased array feed technology, giving it the ability to electronically form up to nine dual-polarisation beams.