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SIMON JOHNSTON

Senior Research Astronomer


Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO



Mailing Address : ATNF, CSIRO PO BOX 76, NSW 1710, Australia.
Email: Simon.Johnston AT csiro.au
Phone: +61 2 9372-4573
Information about my work
 I am a Senior Research Astonomer at the Australia Telescope National Facility, a division of the CSIRO. I am an astrophysicist and my main research area is pulsars. Pulsars are small, dense, rotating stars and are the most fascinating objects in the Universe. You can see a cartoon of one at the top left of the screen. I like to look at single pulses and at the top right is an example of a pulse from the Vela pulsar. The ATNF pulsar group has its pages here.

I am the Project Scientist for ASKAP, the Australian scientific and technical demonstrator for the Square Kilometer Array. For more information, visit the Australian SKA web pages through this link and the international SKA site can be found here. Follow this link for a PDF of the current science case for the xNTD.

Australia is one of two countries vying to host the Square Kilometer Array. The chosen Australian site is the Murchison Radio Observatory in inland Western Australia, which will also host ASKAP. I am the Project Scientist for the site submission bid delivered to the SKA project office at the end of 2005.

I'm sure you really want to read my Papers.

And my Research Interests are listed here.

Some weather and time info

Upcoming Meetings
 Pulsar Meeting - Barcelona - April 2010


Have a look at some of my Links to the World!!

Last modified: Dec 2005