Last year’s ASKAP visit

May 13, 2016

Photo by Connie Brem The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) consists of 36 x 12-m dishes. Twelve of these are now equipped with second-generation Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs), which provide […]

ASKAP construction

May 12, 2016

by Mark Leach (CASS) Images from the ASKAP construction during 2010 and 2011, incl. some site infrastructure, the first BETA Phased-Array Feed on the ground, splicing, trenching (hot and dusty […]

ATNF Colloquium – Jets, outflows and radio galaxies at low-frequencies

May 11, 2016

by Elizabeth Mahoney (Sydney Uni) Abstract. In this seminar I will present work I’ve done over the last few years during my previous postdoc position at ASTRON in the Netherlands. […]

The remarkably tight HI size-mass relation of galaxies

May 10, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) This paper ( Wang et al. 2016 ) is recently accepted for publication at MNRAS. It builds a beautiful sample of HI interferometry data for over […]

ATCA movie from Dawn to Dusk

May 9, 2016

by Leslie Eastman (Monash University) Leslie Eastman’s diverse art practice uses painting, drawing, video, installation and sound to explore the nature of human perception. His work examines the encounter between […]

ATNF Colloquium – Recent Science and Upcoming Changes for NRAO/US Radio Astronomy

May 6, 2016

by Tony Beasley (NRAO) Abstract. The outlook for radio astronomy in the US is complex at present. New instruments and upgrades are producing exciting science (several recent results will be […]

Monitoring the Galactic Centre with the ATCA

May 5, 2016

by Abhijeet Borkar (Universität Köln; Germany) The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity, which is thought to arise […]

Visiting the SkyMapper team

May 4, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) The Skymapper team are busy preparing for the early data release of a shallow imaging survey. The survey provides u, v, g, r, i and z […]

Vela pulsar timing over 21 years

May 3, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Shannon et al. (2016) present observations of the Vela pulsar over a period of 21 years during which time the pulsar has rotated nearly than 7.5 […]

Coupling between baryons and dark matter in galaxies

May 2, 2016

by Paolo Serra (CASS) The mass budget of the Universe is dominated by a dark matter of unknown nature. An important clue about the properties of this dark matter is […]