First ASKAP community busy week

March 31, 2016

by Paolo Serra (CASS) This week the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) is hosting the first ASKAP community busy week. The event was organised by Lisa Harvey-Smith, Dave McConnell and […]

The Double Pulsar and other neutron stars: new effects, new results, new methods

March 30, 2016

Colloquium by Michael Kramer (MPIfR Bonn) Today’s talk will present some of the latest results from the double pulsar and other neutron stars with the aim of studying fundamental physics. […]

Sensitivity of an ASKAP PAF on the Parkes 64-m antenna

March 29, 2016

by Aaron Chippendale and Xinping Deng (CASS) We have measured the sensitivity of an ASKAP phased array feed (PAF) on the Parkes 64 m radio telescope. The above plot shows […]

Hard work at IAU Symposium 321

March 24, 2016

by Baerbel Koribalski (CASS) Last week saw the IAU Symposium 321 “Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts” take place in Toledo, Spain. The goal of the symposium was to improve […]

Evidence for AGN-powered radio emission in Radio-Quiet Quasars

March 23, 2016

Colloquium by Sarah White (ICRAR/Curtin) Abstract: Studying the interplay of accretion and star formation is crucial to our understanding of galaxy evolution. As we probe low radio luminosities, the two […]

MK3 Phased Array Feed

March 22, 2016

by Alex Dunning (CASS) Today’s image shows CSIRO’s MK3 40-port phased array feed — with its characteristic “rockets” — undergoing testing in the Parkes aperture array test facility. The test […]

MK3 Phased Array Feed

March 21, 2016

by Alex Dunning (CASS) Today’s image shows CSIRO’s MK3 40-port phased array feed — with its characteristic “rockets” — undergoing testing in the Parkes aperture array test facility. The test […]

Discovery of Two New Pulsars in 47 Tucanae

March 18, 2016

by George Hobbs (CASS) Today’s image shows the discovery plots for two new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanane: PSRs J0024-7204aa (the fastest known pulsar in the cluster) […]

Greetings from Portsmouth University

March 17, 2016

by Baerbel Koribalski (CASS) Couldn’t miss this selfie opportunity with one of the original “Dr Who” Daleks at the Visualisation Hub of Portsmouth University, U.K. The image shows, from left […]

ATNF Colloquium: The role of environment in galaxy evolution

March 16, 2016

by Alessandro Boselli (LAM, Marseille) Our speaker will review the most recent results on the study of the role of the environment in galaxy evolution based on the analysis of […]

Perth Astrofest

March 15, 2016

by Rob Hollow (CASS) CASS Staff and volunteers helping visitors on the CASS/SKA booth at the Perth Astrofest build Lego radio telescopes on Saturday 12 March. Held annually at Curtin […]

Science meets Parliament 2016

March 14, 2016

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) The 16th annual Science meets Parliament took place on 1-2 March 2016. This event brought 200 scientists to Australia’s capital city so they could share their […]