COAST is a project to study pulsars, extremely compact stellar objects that emit beams of radio waves as a sort of celestial lighthouses, with ASKAP, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.

ASKAP is a next-generation radio telescope being developed by CSIRO that will incorporate novel receiver technologies and leading-edge ICT systems. It will be made up of 36 identical antennas, each 12 metres in diameter, working together as a single instrument. When complete, ASKAP will be one of the world’s premier radio telescopes and will help to answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

As well as being a world-leading telescope in its own right, ASKAP will be an important testbed for the Square Kilometre Array, a future international radio telescope that will be the world’s largest and most sensitive.”