First pulsar polarisation profiles from the Murchison Widefield Array!
June 14, 2016
by Charlotte Sobey (Curtin University / CASS) Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetised neutron stars. Here, two pulsar’s polarised emission has been captured at low radio frequencies using the Murchison Widefield Array […]
Shari’s farewell at Epping Pub
June 10, 2016
by Jamie Stevens (CASS) CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science says farewell to Shari Breen, who joined us as a Bolton fellow in 2010. Shari has been a prolific user of […]
Hydrogen clouds in the Magellanic Leading Arm
June 9, 2016
by Bi-Qing For (UWA/ICRAR) For et al. (2016) present a high-resolution study of five high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in the region of the Magellanic Leading Arm (LA). The goal of the […]
Astronomical Verification of an SKA Frequency Synchronisation system prototype
June 8, 2016
by Sascha Schediwy (UWA) During last weeks’ scheduled maintenance period, Sascha Schediwy and David Gozzard from the University of Western Australia (as part of the SKA’s Signal and Data Transport […]
ASKAP HI map of the starburst galaxy NGC 253
June 7, 2016
by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) Last weekend 11 ASKAP antennas (each fitted with a MkII generation PAF) were tuned to 1.4 GHz allowing observations of the HI 21-cm spectral line in […]
ASKAP Science Meeting
June 6, 2016
Photo by Wasim Raja (CASS) The ASKAP 2016 science conference starts today, featuring talks from scientists involved in ASKAP survey science and related projects. Conference details can be found here […]
Visiting The Dish
June 3, 2016
Photos by John Sarkissian (CASS) CASS Deputy Director Sarah Pearce at The Dish during a visit to Parkes by the Australia Telescope Steering Committee (ATSC) .
Properties of low-frequency pulsars
June 2, 2016
by Martin Bell (CASS) A recently accepted paper by Bell et al. (2016) entitled “Time-domain and spectral properties of low frequency pulsars” explores Southern hemisphere pulsars using the Murchison Widefield […]
A new broadband snapshot survey in SDSS Stripe 82
June 1, 2016
by Ian Heywood (CASS) A new radio survey of the SDSS Stripe 82 region has been carried out using observations with the Very Large Array. The survey used 1,026 snapshot […]
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
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The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.