Australia Telescope User Committee meeting

November 14, 2016

The Australia Telescope User Committee (ATUC) consists of a diverse range of members from Australian Universities and other astronomy institutions, who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility […]

Flowers near ASKAP

November 11, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is growing week by week; 24 Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) are now on site. Installation and testing is on-going, with 30 PAFs […]

Pietro Baracchi Conference Photo

November 10, 2016

The first Pietro Baracchi conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA concluded successfully in Pert last week. Sponsorship for this meeting was generously provided by the Embassy […]

ATNF Colloquium – The evolution of the angular momentum of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations

November 9, 2016

by Claudia Lagos (ICRAR/UWA) Abstract. We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular momentum of galaxies, j, in the redshift range 0

Science for the SKA generation

November 8, 2016

The 2016 SKA science conference is under way in Goa, India, this week. CASS staff attending are George Heald, Craig Anderson, James Allison, and Josh Marvil.

DSS36 – our new dish for space tracking

November 7, 2016

DSS-36 completes the Deep Space Network Aperture Enhancement Project launched by NASA several years to ensure the network could do all required space tracking. More information this CSIRO blog article […]

ASKAP core antennas with new PAFs

November 4, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is growing week by week as more Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) arrive on site for installation and testing on the antennas. We […]

Radio light curve of the galaxy possibly associated with FRB150418

November 3, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Johnston et al. present observations made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Giant Metre-Wave Telescope of the […]

ATNF Colloquium – The true shape of galaxies

November 2, 2016

by Caroline Foster (AAO) Abstract. The intrinsic or true three-dimensional shape of galaxies is one of their most fundamental characteristic. Yet, due to projection effects, the true shape of galaxies […]

ATCA detections of massive molecular gas reservoirs in dusty, high-z radio galaxies

November 1, 2016

by Ian Heywood (CASS) Today’s ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP) shows ATCA 7 mm spectra of two optically-faint, narrow-line radio galaxies with redshifts > 2 (left panels), corresponding to a […]