ATCA Legacy Projects — Call for Expressions of Interest
December 22, 2015
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science intends to implement a program of ATCA Legacy Projects from the 2016OCT semester. Legacy Projects will be large, coherent science investigations, not reproducible by any […]
Eleven year cosmic search leads to black hole rethink
December 22, 2015
One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with the Parkes telescope has shown that an expected background […]
2015: An ASKAP year to remember
December 21, 2015
The end of the year is a time to reflect on the major achievements of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) project in 2015, thanks to the team staff based in […]
New PAFs ‘on the verge’ of surpassing BETA
December 18, 2015
Commissioning activities with the newest ASKAP receivers (Mk II) have produced an image from 25 beams, with early data indicating the performance of the Mk II systems may be on […]
Supercomputing resources secured for ASKAP Early Science
December 16, 2015
CSIRO has teamed up with leading scientists from the ASKAP early science projects to secure 750,000 core hours of processing time on the largest research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere. […]
Exotic pulsar theories confirmed with BETA
December 14, 2015
The latest paper to be published from ASKAP has used commissioning data to confirm theoretical predictions of an exotic intermittent pulsar almost 6,000 light years away. The paper, A pilot […]
Australia welcomes the SKA to the ‘ideas boom’
December 9, 2015
On Monday 7 December, the Australian Government took an important step towards hosting the SKA when the Prime Minister announced a provisional funding allocation for the project as part of […]
Position available: Head of WA Observatory Operations
December 4, 2015
CSIRO is advertising for a Head of WA Observatory Operations. More details are available from the link below. More information.
Progress surges ahead on MRO power solutions
December 1, 2015
The Mid West outback region of Western Australia may be the ideal site to build highly sensitive radio telescopes, but the challenges of building a scientific facility in such a […]
BETA Data Release Information
November 23, 2015
The ASKAP Commissioning and Early Science (ACES) team are using BETA to carry out a small number of science programs. These have been selected to to explore the astronomy potential […]
ATCA Legacy Projects
November 17, 2015
After receiving advice from the Australia Telescope Steering Committee and consulting with the ATNF user community, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) has decided to begin a program of Legacy […]
Tackling the SKA engineering challenges of tomorrow, today
November 10, 2015
Representatives from CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science are attending the second annual SKA Engineering Meeting this week in Penticton, Canada, where over 200 engineers have gathered to consider the engineering […]