ATNF Media Releases
18 December 2001CSIRO-TRW ALLIANCE EXPLORES SPEEDY SEMICONDUCTORSCSIRO and U.S. telecommunications giant TRW have formed a strategic alliance to develop high-performance gallium arsenide and indium phosphide components for radio astronomy, advanced millimetre-wave sensors and telecommunications systems.
More Information:Ms Helen Sim, Communications Manager, Australia Telescope National Facility Mr Jack Prichett, Media Relations Manager, TRW +1-310-812-5227 Prof. Ron Ekers, Director, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Dr John Archer, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics |
16 November 2001NEW AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE 'EYES' LOOK AT EXPLODED STARAstronomers are announcing today that they have used a new receiving system on CSIRO's Australia Telescope to make the first image at short (12-millimetre) wavelengths of Supernova 1987A, the remains of an exploded star in a nearby galaxy. The picture marks another step in the telescope's progress to sharper eyesight. More Information:Dr Richard Manchester, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Dr Bryan Gaensler, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Helen Sim, Australia Telescope National Facility,
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31 October 2001"THE DISH" TURNS 40 TODAYCSIRO's Parkes Radio telescope was officially opened on 31 October 1961. Tomorrow scientists will celebrate the anniversary with a scientific symposium at the Parkes Observatory in mid-west NSW. Parkes was the world's second 'big dish' radio telescope. Its design was copied later for the antennas of NASA's deep-space tracking stations. More Information:Helen Sim, Australia Telescope National Facility, Dr John Reynolds, Officer in Charge (OIC), Parkes Observatory Mr John Brooks, Assistant Director, Australia Telescope National Facility Mr John Sarkissian, Operations Scientist, Parkes Observatory Mr Rick Twardy, Manager, Parkes Visitors Discovery Centre Mr Peter Robertson, author of a history of the Parkes telescope, "Under Southern Skies" |
21 August 2001MNRF FUNDING TO BOOST ASTRONOMY SCIENCE AND INSTRUMENTATIONAustralian astronomers were jubilant to hear today that they have received $23.5 million under the Major National Research Facilities Program to increase Australia's share of time on the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile and further Australia's involvement with the planned international giant radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array.
More Information:Professor Ray Norris, Acting Director, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Professor Brian Boyle, Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory Dr Peter Hall, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Dr Rachel Webster, Chair, National Committee for Astronomy Dr Warrick Couch |
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