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Early Continuum Science with ASKAPCSIRO Astronomy & space ScienceRay Norris, Nick Seymour (CASS) , Andrew Hopkins (AAO)

- Early Science is an exciting stage for any new facility.We can't know the exact timescales or roll-out of various capabilities, but we have to plan for all eventualities, including lots of time for early science with a well working telescope. We want the opportunity to conduct ground-breaking science to make the highest impact on the community. To that end we propose a large area, full stokes, range survey which enable a great progress in many EMU science areas, but particularly the original key goal of galaxy evolutionHowever, we propose a observing across the full 1100MHz bandwidth which would provide a truly unique data set (different to that which the final ASKAP would produce). 1ASKAP12+ will be one of the most powerful survey radio telescopes in the world

30uJy/beam rms in a 12hour integration

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