Radio properties of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate
March 7, 2015
by David Cseh (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) HLX-1 is the best candidate intermediate-mass black hole among its peers (Farrell et al. 2009). HLX-1 is the brightest hyperluminous X-ray source […]
The first “water fountain” in a planetary nebula
March 6, 2015
by José-Francisco Gómez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain) Gómez et al. (2015) have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to map the water maser emission in […]
Searching for high-energy particles hitting the moon
March 5, 2015
by Justin Bray (University of Manchester, U.K.) High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, when they hit the moon, should produce a pulse of radio waves that can be detected from earth. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Spatial RFI Mitigation & Radio Astronomy
March 4, 2015
by Greg Hellbourg (CASS) Abstract. Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a serious and challenging issue for radio astronomy due to increasing spectrum occupancy. Current approaches for mitigating interference contributions to astronomical […]
2015 ATNF Observing Schedules
March 3, 2015
The ATNF observing schedules for the 2015 April semester are now available on-line. All ATNF observations are carried out by the observers from the Science Operations Center (SOC), located at […]
February 2015 – ADAP Collage
March 2, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) Thank you so much to all the wonderful contributions to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP). Here are links to the collage for each previous month: […]
Wildlife at the ATCA
March 1, 2015
by Andreas Herzog (Bochum University, Germany) Not only kangaroos, goannas, and spiders are attracted by the impressive Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). This picture, taken in the early evening 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.