Pathbreaking radio telescope project studies early universe

Arizona State University has joined with 14 other institutions in Australia, India, New Zealand and the United States in a radio telescope project that focuses on the early universe and the birth and formation of the first galaxies.

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From link:
“The radio telescope is the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in the Shire of Murchison, Western Australia. … The telescope is constructed of 2,048 dipole antennas, grouped into four-by-four arrays … The antennas and receivers operate at low radio frequencies and are optimized for radio waves in the 80-300 Megahertz range – the same frequencies used for FM radio and broadcast TV. Hence, Murchison’s geographic isolation provides great advantages. … A dense-core-plus-outliers arrangement gives sensitive, wide-field views … yielding baseline distances of about 3 kilometers”.

Excellent. Let’s see how that 80-300 MHz range compares to other telescopes:
Planck is 30 to 800 GHz
VLA is 60 MHz to 4.5 GHz
Australia Telescope Compact Array is 1.1 to 3.1 GHz
Parkes Multibeam Receiver is 1.2 to 1.5 GHz
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in Australia will be 50 MHz and higher.
The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder is 700 MHz to 1.8 GHz.

Aha. This Murchison Widefield Array is going to become part of the Australian part of the Square Kilometer Array, along with the Australian SKA Pathfinder.