Astronomy Australia Ltd.

Astronomy Australia Limited is a non-profit company whose members are a range of Australian universities and research organizations. Its core business is to manage programs that provide astronomers with access to national optical/infrared and radio astronomy infrastructure.

Australia's participation in the GMT at the 10% level is fully funded. Currently, Matthew Colless and Mark McAuley represent AAL on the GMT board.

The AAL is also involved in:

• HERMES is the next generation of instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope. As a multi fibre-fed high resolution spectrograph, HERMES will aim to unravel the history of the Milky Way by chemically fingerprinting a million stars and reconstructing the formation sequence of the Galaxy.
• Australia is currently a member of the International Gemini Partnership. This allows Australian astronomers access to telescope time on the two 8m Gemini telescopes located in Chile and Hawaii.
• The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a technology demonstrator for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The large field-of-view makes ASKAP an unprecedented synoptic telescope that will make substantial advances in SKA key sciences.
• The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a radically new type of radio telescope, with no moving parts and dependent on prodigious computer power to create exquisite real-time wide-field images of the radio sky.
• PLATO (PLATeau Observatory) is a University of New South Wales designed and manufactured robotic astronomical observatory for Antarctica.

Partners

Astronomy Australia Ltd.

The Australian National University

Carnegie Institution for Science

Harvard University

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Smithsonian Institution

University of Texas at Austin

Texas A&M University

The University of Arizona

University of Chicago