March 31, 2015
by Phil Crosby (CASS) The 2015 Perth Astrofest was held on the 27th of March attracting a large crowd of astronomy enthusiasts. The picture shows Aidan Hotan (CASS, Perth), Mary […]
March 30, 2015
by Ian Stephens (Boston University) The Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) Mopra survey has detected high-mass star-forming clumps with anomalous N 2 H + /HCO + (1-0) integrated […]
March 29, 2015
High energy electrons trapped in Jupiter’s radiation belts emit synchrotron radiation at radio wavelengths. Here we show the movie of a 3-D reconstruction of ATCA 20-cm Jupiter’s synchrotron radiation. The […]
March 28, 2015
by Marco Regis (University of Torino and INFN, Italy) Regis et al. (2014) investigate the presence of radio signals in dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies induced by non-gravitational interactions of dark […]
March 27, 2015
by the ASKAP Firmware team (CASS) ASKAP beamformers for CSIRO’s second-generation Phased-Array Feed (PAF) receivers are all packed into crates and ready for shipment to the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO) […]
March 26, 2015
by Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA/ICRAR) Members of the WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY) source-finding and kinematic working groups met at Rutgers University, New Jersey, on March 19 and […]
March 25, 2015
by J-P Macquart (Curtin University) Abstract. The detection of millisecond-duration Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at apparently cosmological distances has opened up new possibilities of probing the Intergalactic Medium. The dispersion […]
March 24, 2015
Every year 10-15 summer students join the ATNF for about three months. This picture shows the group of 2014/5 students, supervised by Josh Marvil (CASS), during their visit of the […]
March 23, 2015
ASKAP, the Australian SKA Pathfinder, is located in a radio-quiet zone within the remote Murchison Shire in Western Australia. The picture above, featuring Sturt’s Desert Peas, was taken by Simon […]
March 22, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) Five antennas of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) can be moved to different stations along the east-west track (seen in this picture) and, occasionally, the […]
March 21, 2015
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Raithel, Shannon, Johnston & Kerr (2015) detected sporadic, bright, short-duration radio pulses from PSR J0901-4624. These pulses are emitted simultaneously with persistent, periodic emission that dominates […]
March 20, 2015
by Tim Shimwell (Leiden University, The Netherlands) With Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations we ( Shimwell et al. 2015 ) detect a highly elongated Mpc-scale diffuse radio source on […]
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.