Storm Stow at ATCA

February 3, 2016

by Helga Dénes (CASS) The picture was taken on 1 February 2013 at the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) while observing neutral hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy IC 1993. IC […]

Welcome to Charlotte Sobey 🙂

February 2, 2016

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr Charlotte Sobey who joins the Astro Group as a joint Curtin University / CASS postdoctoral fellow, specialising in pulsars. Charlotte will be […]

Welcome to George Heald 🙂

February 1, 2016

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr George Heald who joins the Astro Group as another CSIRO Science Leader, specialising in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy. Based in the CASS […]

SKA intergovernmental negotiations

January 29, 2016

Photo by Sarah Pearce (CASS) This week the SKA intergovernmental negotiations are held in Rome. The Australian negotiating team includes Sarah Pearce from CASS. In Australia, the the ANZSCC Science […]

Alex Gagliano presenting his AAS Poster

January 28, 2016

by Juan Madrid (CASS) Earlier this month, Alex Gagliano presented a poster at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Orlando, Florida. The poster showed the results of a study […]

2015/6 ATNF Summer Students

January 27, 2016

by Martin Bell (CASS) CSIRO summer vacation students visited the Australia Telescope Compact Array for a 24 hour observing campaign. The purpose of the visit was to tackle some non-traditional […]

HI emission and absorption in nearby, gas-rich galaxies

January 26, 2016

by Sarah Reeves (University of Sydney) Reeves et al. (2016) present the detection of a new intervening HI absorption-line in the galaxy NGC 5156. The detection was made as part […]

The AT20G visibility-spectra diagnostic plot

January 25, 2016

by Rajan Chhetri (UNSW) The AT20G high frequency survey selects a very high fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) compared to surveys at lower frequencies. The 6-km interferometer visibility using […]

An extreme scattering event caught in real time

January 23, 2016

by Keith Bannister (CASS) These two panels show the multi-frequency light curve (top) and corresponding dynamic spectrum (bottom) of an Extreme Scattering Event, detected by the ATCA in 2014, and […]

CSIRO News Release – Dark `noodles’ may lurk in the Milky Way

January 22, 2016

Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. CSIRO astronomer and […]

Welcome to Stephen Ord 🙂

January 21, 2016

Stephen Ord started at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science on the 4th of January 2016, coming to us from Perth’s Curtin University. He he come from working on the Murchison […]

ATNF Colloquium – Cold molecular gas in high-z proto-cluster radio galaxies: ATCA’s strength in the ALMA era

January 20, 2016

by Bjorn Emonts (Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain) Abstract: I will present ATCA result from a survey for cold molecular CO(1-0) gas in proto-cluster radio galaxies at z ~ […]