January 31, 2017
by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) During the last commissioning run we briefly had 16 PAF-equipped ASKAP antennas working as an array, ie. four more than in recent ASKAP-12 observations. We decided […]
January 26, 2017
by Manuel Paredes (Gemini) and Juan Madrid (CASS) Gemini South fires the laser of its Adaptive Optics system into the sky. This laser bounces back from the upper layers of […]
January 25, 2017
by Andrew Cameron (MPIfR Bonn, Germany) Abstract. The HTRU-South Low Latitude pulsar survey represents the most sensitive blind pulsar survey taken of the southern Galactic plane to date. With long […]
January 24, 2017
by George Heald (CASS) Spiral galaxies host large-scale magnetic fields that evolve over millions of years via turbulence in the Interstellar Medium and the rotation of the galaxy itself. These […]
January 23, 2017
by Helga Denes (CASS) The Quito Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronomico de Quito in Spanish) is located in the Historic Centre of Quito. The observatory was founded in 1873 and it […]
January 20, 2017
by Helga Denes (CASS) The First Ecuadorian School of Radio Astronomy was organised by Observatorio Astronomico de Quito (OAQ) of Escuela Politecnica Nacional (EPN) from the 11th to the 13th […]
January 19, 2017
by Hidetoshi Sano (Nagoya University) Superbubble 30 Doradus C is a bright X-ray cavity with a diameter of ~300 light year in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which was created by […]
January 18, 2017
by Joe Callingham (Sydney Uni, CASS & CAASTRO) Using the MWA’s GLEAM all-sky survey, PhD student Joe Callingham and co-authors have more than doubled the number of “peak-spectrum” radio galaxies […]
January 17, 2017
by Jing Wang (CASS) It has been known for a long time that galaxies in denser clustering environments tend to have less gas and star formation. A recent paper, Janowiecki […]
January 16, 2017
by Dane Kleiner (Monash Uni) We examine the HI-to-stellar mass ratio (HI fraction) for galaxies near filament backbones within the nearby Universe (d
January 13, 2017
Photo by Rhianna Lyons Grant Hampson (CASS) kindly provided this amazing photo taken by Rhianna Lyons (age 12). He writes: “Rhianna took this photo last April while holidaying in Parkes […]
January 12, 2017
ASKAP Early Science with 12 PAF-equipped antennas commenced in October 2016, led by the WALLABY team (PIs: Bärbel Koribalski, CASS, and Lister Staveley-Smith, UWA/ICRAR + over 100 astronomers from around […]
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.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
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.