New feedhorn design ?

November 8, 2015

“Sculpture by the Sea” is an annual event in Sydney, where one hundred weird and wonderful scultpures are exhibited along the cliff path from Bondi to Tamarama beach. Among these […]

Luneburg lens array patch

November 7, 2015

Four hundred Luneburg lenses, 5-m in diameter, would provide the same collecting area as a 100-m single dish (as explained by Peter Hall in this 1999 article ). – The […]

Remember Luneburg lenses ?

November 6, 2015

This image shows a 90-cm diameter Luneburg lens and small focal plane array being tested in the CSIRO’s Marsfield near-field test facility many years ago. – For more details see […]

First 16-beam image with ASKAP MkII PAFs

November 5, 2015

by the ASKAP team In the latest ASKAP Update No 8 , Maxim Voronkov, Adan Hotan, John Reynolds, and Dave McConnell report the first radio images from ASKAP using its […]

ATNF Colloquium – Astrochemistry in external galaxies: how to use molecules as probes of dense gas

November 4, 2015

by Serena Viti (University College London) Abstract. It is now well established that chemistry in external galaxies is rich and complex. In this talk I will show how molecular emission […]

Deep Radio and X-Ray observations of Pictor A

November 3, 2015

by Emil Lenc (CAASTRO, SIfA, University of Sydney) A study of deep observations of Pictor A in radio with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and in X-rays with the […]

ASKAP team members proud of their CSIRO medal

November 2, 2015

It takes a large team to carry out a big project like ASKAP. The above photos show just a few of the many engineers and scientists receiving the CSIRO 2015 […]

CSIRO animation: how PAFs help us look back in time

November 1, 2015

ASKAP’s Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) are a marvel of engineering, recognised by numerous awards, most recently by the CSIRO 2015 Chairman’s medal . Using PAFs on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP; […]

Kangaroos in front of the visitors centre at the ATCA

October 31, 2015

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) Jamie Stevens, Robin Wark, Shari Breen and Karen Lee-Waddell recently revised the ATCA Users Guide, while on-site at the array in Narrabri. A new version of […]

Welcome to Juan Madrid 🙂

October 30, 2015

Juan Madrid comes from Gemini where he was a Science Fellow. The picture above is of Juan in front of Gemini South in Cerro Pachon, Chile. This telescope is located […]

ASKAP team wins CSIRO’s highest honour

October 29, 2015

Congratulations to the amazing ASKAP team – a few of whom are shown in the image above (with PAF-equipped ASKAP antennas in the background) – who won the 2015 Chairman’s […]

ATNF Colloquium – The Void Galaxy Survey – exploring the loneliest galaxies in the Universe

October 28, 2015

by Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute) The “Cosmic Web” harbours a range of structures and densities: at one extreme one finds galaxy clusters, the most massive, virialized dense conglomerates […]