Remembering Dan Harris

December 19, 2015

by Juan Madrid (CASS) Today we remember our colleague Daniel Harris from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who passed away on December 6. Dan was a student of John Bolton and […]

ATNF Colloquium – Stratospheric balloons at the frontier of space: The example of PILOT

December 18, 2015

by Jean-Philippe Bernard (Toulouse, France) Abstract. PILOT is a balloon-borne experiment dedicated to measuring the far-infrared polarized emission from dust in the diffuse ISM of our galaxy and nearby galaxies. […]

`Exotic pulsar’ theories confirmed with BETA

December 17, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) The latest paper to be published from ASKAP has used commissioning data to confirm theoretical predictions of an `exotic’ intermittent pulsar almost 6,000 light years […]

Supercomputing Resources Secured for ASKAP Early Science

December 16, 2015

by Lisa Harvey-Smith (CASS) The ASKAP early science project has been awarded 600,000 core hours on Magnus, the largest research supercomputer in the southern hemisphere. This time will be available […]

Bolton Symposium talk

December 15, 2015

by Juan Madrid (CASS) The M87 jet is experiencing extreme optical/UV variability and very high energy emission that were never anticipated. HST-1, a knot along the M87 jet located 1 […]

Before the storm at ASKAP

December 14, 2015

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The colours of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) come alive in anticipation of a pending storm. The white of the ASKAP antennas contrast beautifully with the […]

Visiting ASKAP

December 13, 2015

Photo by Connie Brem (CASS) Following the wonderful Murchison Astrofest , we returned to Boolardy Station and on the following day had a great tour of the ASKAP site and […]

Hovermap of the Parkes Dish

December 12, 2015

An unusual view of the CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes telescope. The above image shows one frame of a fly-through of the point cloud generated by Hovermap . For more details and […]

Budgies near ASKAP

December 11, 2015

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A swarm of green budgerigars (budgies) take flight in the Murchison region, near the location of the ASKAP telescope. These nomadic, storm-chasing, desert birds are native […]

Bolton Symposium talk

December 10, 2015

by Aina Musaeva (Sydney University) The intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) occupy the mass range between the stellar (sMBHs) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). IMBHs can help explain how first SMBHs […]

The Australian SKA Pathfinder

December 9, 2015

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) consists of 36 x 12-m dishes, currently being equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs). The 30 square degrees field-of-view will make ASKAP a fast 21-cm […]

Wild flowers near the ASKAP site

December 8, 2015

During a visit to Boolardy station and the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) earlier this year, wild flowers were abundant everywhere, coloring the dusty red landscape.