observatory is now used to detect fast radio bursts and do research on pulsars. The equipment for fast radio burst detection is called UTMOST. Square Kilometre Array development MOST is being used to develop technology for the Australian site of the Square Kilometre Array telescope. Since 2003 work has proceeded on the SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) which has included fitting new wide-band feeds, low-noise amplifiers, digital filterbanks and correlator, in order to demonstrate 300-1420 MHz continuous frequency coverage and multibeam mode operation. The new correlator is a 96 input continuum correlator using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips. This effort is a collaboration between the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Information and Communications Technology Centre, and the University of Sydney. UTMOST Since 2015, the telescope has been operated in a collaboration between the University of Sydney and Swinburne University of Technology. The goal is to probe the radio transient sky in real time, monitoring pulsars and magnetars, and searching for Fast Radio Bursts. The telescope sensitivity was improved by a refit of receiver technologies on one of its arms (in the east–west direction), and presently (late 2020) the north–south arm is being fitted out with significantly improved receivers as well. This will allow Fast Radio Bursts and similar radio transients to be located on the sky with a few arcseconds of precision, sufficient to identify the host galaxies from which the originate. See also List of astronomical observatories Lists of telescopes Notes References External links Astronomical observatories in New South Wales Radio telescopes Interferometric telescopes University of Sydney