ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT status and progress

July 6, 2016

by Laura Richter (SKA South Africa) Abstract. MeerKAT is an SKA pathfinder telescope located in South Africa. Currently under construction, it will consist of sixty-four 13.5m parabolic antennas with a […]

Magnetic fields around galaxy nuclei

July 5, 2016

by Craig Anderson (CASS) When gas spirals into supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the heart of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), powerful, oppositely-directed, high-speed jets of gas can sometimes form. These […]

Welcome to Craig Anderson

July 4, 2016

by George Heald (CASS) CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Craig Anderson, who joins the Astro Group as this year’s Bolton Fellow specialising in wide-field radio polarimetry surveys. Craig […]

Emus visiting ASKAP in the Murchison Shire

July 1, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) Emus and other wildlife are always a welcome sight at the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO), where Australia’s newest telescopes, ASKAP and MWA, are located.

Visiting the 100-m Effelsberg Telescope

June 30, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) The 100-m Effelsberg telescope of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR ) is nestled in the beautiful Ahr valley (Ahrtal) of north western Germany. […]

ATNF Colloquium – Using the sub-giant branch to constrain the star formation history of intermediate-age clusters

June 29, 2016

by Chengyuan Li (Macquarie University) Abstract. The presence of extended main-sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions in intermediate-age, 1-2 Gyr-old star clusters in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds is often interpreted […]

Non-parametric estimation of morphological lopsidedness

June 28, 2016

by Nadine Giese (University of Groningen) Upcoming blind HI surveys with e.g. APERTIF or ASKAP will provide data for tens of thousands of galaxies that can be used for a […]

Science Innovation

June 27, 2016

by Douglas Bock (CASS) The multibeam receiver CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) is building for China’s 500-m Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) – shown above – has grown from work […]

ATCA maps molecules in η Carina

June 24, 2016

by Laurent Loinard (UNAM) η Carinae is one of the most massive stellar sources in the Milky Way. It entered the Hall of Fame of astronomy in the mid 19th […]

Essential tools for data intensive science

June 23, 2016

A great selection of tools for data intensive astronomy and other fields, including data visualisation, web design and templates, database tools, communication, and other resources. Some of these tools have […]

ATNF Colloquium – Science Unshackled

June 22, 2016

by Renee James (Sam Houston State University) Abstract. Why in the world are we paying for all this “basic” research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp […]

Murchison Widefield Array – science with robot spiders

June 21, 2016

by Randall Wayth (Curtin University) The Murchison Widefield Array’s 72 new antenna tiles have been deployed and are ready for commissioning in July. For the second half of 2016, the […]