ATNF Colloquium — Matt Miles (Vanderbilt)
March 26, 2026
SCULPTing a new pulsar timing landscape Abstract: Pulsar timing arrays are only as good as the timing residuals they produce — and those residuals are only as clean as the […]
ATNF Colloquium — Luca Ighina (Harvard CfA)
March 25, 2026
A New Radio Window on the Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes Abstract: From reionizing the Universe to quenching star formation in massive galaxies, accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), […]
Discovery of two new millisecond pulsars toward the Galactic bulge
March 24, 2026
The mysterious Galactic center (GC) gamma-ray excess (GCE), which was discovered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite, has been puzzling astrophysicists for more than fifteen years. […]
Timing and Scintillation of a Young Galactic Halo Pulsar
March 23, 2026
Yao et al. conducted a timing and scintillation study of a young Galactic halo pulsar, PSR J1740+1000, using observations from the Nanshan and FAST radio telescopes in China, and Murriyang, […]
A polarised Salamander
March 20, 2026
As a supernova remnant (SNR) evolves, any embedded pulsar wind nebula (PWN) will interact with the reverse shock from the remnant, leading to distorted PWN morphologies. In some cases, the […]
ATNF Postgraduate Student Symposium
March 19, 2026
The ATNF Postgraduate Student Symposium took place yesterday, being held in conjunction with the Australia Telescope User Committee open meeting, which is being held today. The Symposium was in person […]
Remote observing
March 18, 2026
Thirty years ago, users of the ATNF telescopes had to travel to the telescope sites to observe, with a small amount of remote observing using the ATCA possible from the […]
ASKAP discovery of a fourth galaxy in the ESO 179-013 system
March 17, 2026
Collisional ring galaxies (CRGs) are formed after galaxy-galaxy collisions when a compact “bullet” hits a “target” disk galaxy in a drop-through collision. This collision generates a radially propagating density wave […]
March 2026 issue of Contact
March 16, 2026
Published on the seventh anniversary of the SKAO Convention being signed, the latest issue of the SKAO magazine, Contact, celebrates recent technical milestones for the SKA-Mid telescope, provides an update […]
Discovery of a 36-minute long-period transient ASKAP J1424-6126
March 13, 2026
Pritchard et al. report the discovery of a new long-period radio transient, ASKAP J142431.2–612611, with a 36 minute period, identified in the ASKAP Evolutionary Map of the Universe survey. Pulsed […]
ATNF Colloquium — Eric Burt (2025 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on Frequency Control; NASA/JPL)
March 12, 2026
Frequency Standard Contributions to Limitations on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observations Predicted clock-limited VLBI visibility S/N limitation for VLBI referenced to hydrogen masers with an LO […]
Vale Peter Robertson
March 11, 2026
Peter Robertson joined CSIRO in 1980, spending much of the next 22 years as Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Physics. Peter had his own research interest in the […]
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