First Detection of Radio Emission from the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in POX 52: Deep Multiband Observations with ATCA and VLA
March 7, 2025
Yuan et al. present the first multi-band centimeter detection of POX 52, a nearby dwarf galaxy believed to harbor a robust intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). We conducted the deep […]
Athena sends first lunar selfies
March 6, 2025
Athena, the lunar lander of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission, successfully entered a circular orbit around the Moon on 3 March. Flight controllers expect it to complete 39 orbits before its […]
ATNF Colloquium – Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (Ruhr-University Bochum)
March 5, 2025
Cosmic Ray Driven Galactic Winds Abstract:Numerical models of the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in disk galaxies have recently addressed the importance of rays (CRs) and magnetic fields for the physics […]
SHORES: Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources
March 3, 2025
Massardi et al. introduce the Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources (SHORES) survey. SHORES is a multiple pencil beam survey of 29 fields within the Herschel-ATLAS Southern Galactic Field […]
A dusty high-redshift submillimeter galaxy
February 28, 2025
Tamura et al. report the ATCA and Nobeyama 45m telescope detection of a remarkably bright submillimeter galaxy, MM J154506.4-344318, in emission lines at 48.5 and 97.0 GHz, respectively. They also […]
A halo at CDSCC
February 27, 2025
A halo, or Sun-ring, is caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in thin cirrus or cirrostratus clouds in the upper troposphere, typically 5 to 10 km above the ground. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Himanshu Tiwari
February 26, 2025
Novel Interferometric Techniques for Detecting the 21-cm Signal from the Epoch of Reionisation Himanshu Tiwari (Curtin University) Abstract:Detecting the cosmological 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) presents a […]
A supernova remnant on the outskirts of the LMC
February 25, 2025
When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant (SNR). Observational studies of SNRs allow […]
A RACS catalogue of complex radio sources created using a self-organising map
February 24, 2025
The next generations of radio surveys are expected to identify tens of millions of new sources, and identifying and classifying their morphologies will require novel and more efficient methods. Self-organising […]
The Southern Twenty-centimetre All-sky Polarization Survey (STAPS)
February 21, 2025
Sun et al. present data processing and verification of the Southern Twenty-centimetre All-sky Polarization Survey (STAPS) conducted with Murriyang, the Parkes 64-m telescope. The survey covers the southern sky between […]
The Southern Twenty-centimetre All-sky Polarization Survey (STAPS)
February 20, 2025
Sun et al. present data processing and verification of the Southern Twenty-centimetre All-sky Polarization Survey (STAPS) conducted with Murriyang, the Parkes 64-m telescope. The survey covers the southern sky between […]
The JohnFest – in honour of John Dickey
February 18, 2025
Last week was JohnFest — Structure and Polarisation in the Interstellar Medium — a conference in honour of John Dickey. Around 25 attendees were welcomed to ATNF in Sydney, including […]
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