The Story of Light @ Vivid Sydney

May 19, 2015

by Amanda Bauer (AAO) A panel of professional astronomers tell “The Story of Light” , inspired by the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies 2015. – Almost everything we […]

Phased Array Feeds on ASKAP

May 18, 2015

Photo by Suzy Jackson (CASS) ASKAP, the Australian SKA Pathfinder, consists of 36 telescopes, which together form a powerful 6-km diameter radio interferometer. The photo above shows the installation of […]

Frank Kerr in the old Parkes control room

May 17, 2015

The original Parkes telescope control desk has long been replaced by a set of modern computers, but the observers are just as dedicated as in the early years of radio […]

The Dish’s elevation drive close up

May 16, 2015

Photo by Shaun Amy (CASS) The Parkes Observatory occasionally holds Open Days, providing the best opportunity to get a very close look at our giant 64-m telescope. The photo above […]

VLBI observations of the nearby giga-hertz peaked spectrum source PKS 2254-367

May 15, 2015

by Phil Edwards (CASS) PKS 2254-367 was identified as a member of the class of GHz-peaked spectrum (GPS) galaxy in earlier ATCA observations, and is of particular interest as it […]

A beautiful day at the ATCA

May 14, 2015

by David Brodrick (CASS) The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in its 1.5C configuration on a late afternoon. The antennas were tracking the calibrator 0537-441.

ASKAP – what’s happening this week ?

May 13, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) Here a photo of three of the 36 ASKAP antennas from last week. We can see cabling work underway on Antenna 2 in preparation for […]

The Faintest Dying Radio Galaxy

May 12, 2015

by Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University) In this paper we report the discovery of the lowest surface brightness radio galaxy yet detected, associated with the lenticular galaxy NGC 1534. This represents […]

ATNF Science Day – 1 June 2015

May 11, 2015

The Australia Telescope User Committee (ATUC) meets regularly to (a) hear about recent ATNF developments and (b) discuss the future ATNF science priorities. All users of the Australia Telescope National […]

Excited-state hydroxyl maser polarimetry: Who ate all the Pis?

May 10, 2015

by Jimi Green (SKA Telescope) We observed 30 fields of excited-state hydroxyl (OH) masers in full Stokes polarization with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), detecting 70 sites of maser […]

GASS III, Parkes Galactic All Sky Survey, new data release

May 9, 2015

by Peter Kalberla & Urmas Haud A new version of the Parkes Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS) is available at arXiv:1505.01011 (Kalberla & Haud 2015). Major improvements are based on […]

Untangling an extremely warped dwarf galaxy

May 8, 2015

by Peter Kamphuis (CASS) Warps in neutral hydrogen (HI) disks are common in spiral galaxies. So common that it is thought that whenever an HI disk extends beyond the optical […]