ASKAP’s first all-sky survey

November 29, 2020

When ASKAP was first designed over a decade ago, its goal was to conduct large-scale surveys as quickly as possible. Today, we realised that goal with the publication of ASKAP’s […]

Zooming in on FRBs

June 11, 2020

New research published in ApJL today describes the global properties of the first sample of host galaxies of apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) localized by ASKAP. This study is […]

Astronomers detect missing matter by using ASKAP to localise fast radio bursts

May 28, 2020

A research paper published in the journal Nature today describes how ASKAP’s ability to localise fast radio bursts was key to finding the “missing” baryonic matter that has puzzled astronomers […]

150 galaxies in a single view

May 15, 2020

The first set of science images and cubes for the WALLABY pilot survey have been released onto the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive CASDA, marking significant progress towards the 6th […]

The countdown to survey science with ASKAP reaches its half-way point

May 1, 2020

Stage 5: Image of a complex field Although 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways, the countdown to survey science with ASKAP continues. With additional precautions and procedures […]

ASKAP casts first big radio ‘net’ for gravitational-wave suspects

April 21, 2020

ASKAP has made its first large-scale follow-up of a gravitational-wave event – the merger of a neutron star and a black hole – looking for a radio source generated by […]