ACAMAR collaboration meeting

April 14, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) Acamar is a bright star visible from both Australia and China. ACAMAR is also short for Australia-ChinA ConsortiuM for Astrophysical Research , and aims to enhance […]

ATNF Colloquium – Supermassive black holes at z = 0

April 13, 2016

by Giulia Savorgnan (Swinburne University) Abstract. Supermassive black holes in local galaxies obey a surprisingly large number of scaling laws that involve the black hole mass and various properties of […]

The evolution of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation

April 12, 2016

by Xu Kong (Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China) Abstract. The relationship between the metallicity (Z) and stellar mass (M) of galaxies is a key diagnostic […]

Dust storm near ASKAP

April 11, 2016

by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) Mother Nature surprised us last Saturday with a strong thunderstorm and a dust storm in the evening. According to our weather station, the wind peaked at […]

Tracing the neutral gas environments of young radio AGN with ASKAP

April 8, 2016

by James Allison (CASS) Wide-field HI absorption surveys with the Square Kilometre Array precursors will have the unique capability of finding atomic gas in the largely unexplored epoch between the […]

Phased-Array Feed on The Dish

April 7, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) A collaboration between CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) and the Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) has resulted in one of the Phased-Array Feeds (PAF) […]

ATNF Colloquium – Linking AGN and host galaxy formation

April 6, 2016

by Li Shao (CASS) It is in debate that whether a link between galaxy formation and central black hole growth exists, and if yes, how the link is established. With […]

Pulsar caught switching on and off

April 5, 2016

by George Hobbs (CASS) The recent PULSE@Parkes session at the Geraldton science fair allowed us to obtain a large number of pulsar observations. To the delight of the students and […]

Do massive binary stars emit γ-rays ?

April 4, 2016

by Paula Benaglia (IAR & UNLP) Compelling evidence that massive binary stars are γ-ray emitters was found only for the strange system Eta Carina ( Abdo et al. 2010 ). […]

Geraldton Science Festival

April 1, 2016

by Rob Hollow (CASS) ATNF astronomer Dr George Hobbs with students at the Geraldton Science Festival held at Geraldton Grammar School in Western Australia, 30 – 31 March. The high […]