2014 Science Highlights – Detection of 36 GHz Class I methanol maser emission toward NGC 253

January 19, 2015

Ellingsen et al. (2014) have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for emission from the 36.2 GHz transition of methanol toward the center of the nearby starburst […]

ATNF News No. 77

January 18, 2015

The latest issue of the ATNF News features observatory and project reports, awards (congratulations to Ryan Shannon !) and new postdoctoral staff (welcome to Josh Marvil, Antonia Rowlinson, Jing Wang, […]

2014 Science Highlights – The Galactic Position Dependence of Fast Radio Bursts and the Discovery of FRB 011025

January 17, 2015

Burke-Spolaor & Bannister (2014) report the detection of a dispersed fast radio burst (FRB) in archival intermediate-latitude Parkes Radio Telescope data. The burst appears to be of the same physical […]

2014 Science Highlights – The molecular gas reservoir of six low-metallicity galaxies from the Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey

January 16, 2015

Cormier et al. (2014) present CO observations obtained at the ATNF Mopra 22-m, APEX, and IRAM 30-m telescopes in 6 nearby low-metallicity galaxies. For the first time, they detect CO(1-0) […]

2014 Science Highlights – 2MTF – IV. A bulk flow measurement of the local Universe

January 15, 2015

Hong et al. (2014) use 2MASS near-infrared photometry and high signal-to-noise HI 21-cm data from the Arecibo, Green Bank, Nancay, and Parkes telescopes to calculate the redshift-independent distances and peculiar […]

2014 Science Highlights – Spectral and Morphological Analysis of the Remnant of Supernova 1987A with ALMA and ATCA

January 14, 2015

Zanardo et al. (2014) present a comprehensive spectral and morphological analysis of the remnant of supernova (SN) 1987A with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter […]

2014 Science Highlights – What triggers a radio AGN? The intriguing case of PKS B1718-649

January 13, 2015

Maccagni et al. (2014) present new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations of the young radio galaxy PKS B1718-649. They study the morphology and the kinematics of the neutral hydrogen […]

2014 Science Highlights – The Radio Relics and Halo of El Gordo, a Massive z = 0.870 Cluster Merger

January 12, 2015

Lindner et al. (2014) present 610 MHz and 2.1 GHz imaging of the massive Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect selected z = 0.870 cluster merger ACT-CL J0102-4915 (“El Gordo”), obtained with the Giant […]

2014 Science Highlights – ATCA Survey of Ammonia in the Galactic Center

January 11, 2015

Ott et al. (2014) present a large-scale, interferometric survey of ammonia toward the Galactic center observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The survey covers the region between the […]

2014 Science Highlights – TANAMI monitoring of Centaurus A: The complex dynamics in the inner parsec of an extragalactic jet

January 10, 2015

Mueller et al. (2014) observed the active galactic nucleus of Centaurus A (CenA) approximately every six months at 8.4 GHz with the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) and associated telescopes […]

2014 Science Highlights – Deep radio observations of the radio halo of the bullet cluster 1E 0657-55.8

January 9, 2015

Shimwell et al. (2014) present deep 1.1-3.1 GHz Australia Telescope Compact Array observations of the radio halo of the bullet cluster, 1E 0657-55.8. In comparison to existing images of this […]

2014 Science Highlights – CO(1-0) survey of high-z radio galaxies: alignment of molecular halo gas with distant radio sources

January 8, 2015

Emonts et al. (2014) present a CO(1-0) survey for cold molecular gas in a representative sample of 13 high-z radio galaxies (HzRGs) at 1.4