PAF installation on ASKAP

April 11, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A total of 30 ASKAP antennas are now equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) – delivering a field of view of 30 sq degr on the […]

Supernova 1987A thirty years later

April 10, 2017

by Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA/ICRAR) A great article by Alak Ray (Tata Institute, India) on the IAU Symposium 331, celebrating the 30th anniversary of SN1987A, published last week in Nature Astronomy. […]

Science meets Parliament 2017

April 7, 2017

by Juan Madrid (CASS) A group of delegates attending Science meets Parliament 2017 have a private meeting with the Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull. Science meets Parliament is an event that […]

Inspecting the 19-beam FAST receiver

April 6, 2017

by Li Shao (CASS) The 19-beam receiver for FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) is ready for its trip to China. Douglas Hayman (right) from the Engineering & Operations […]

ATNF Colloquium – Atomic Hydrogen Clouds Tracing the Galactic Nuclear Outflow

April 5, 2017

by Enrico Di Teodoro (ANU) Abstract. I present the results of a new deep survey of neutral hydrogen (HI) above and below the Galactic Center with the Green Bank Telescope, […]

Rain clouds over ASKAP

April 4, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A total of 30 ASKAP antennas are now equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) – delivering a field of view of 30 sq degr on the […]

ASKAP PAF installation

April 3, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) A total of 30 ASKAP antennas are now equipped with wide-field Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) – delivering a field of view of 30 sq degr on the […]

ATNF Colloquium – We’re Out There: NASA’s Future of Exploration

March 27, 2017

by Badri Younes (NASA SCAN) Abstract. The Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA SCAN Mr Badri Younes will highlight NASA’s current deep space exploration plans and missions, review the network of […]

Welcome to Dane Kleiner

March 23, 2017

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dane Kleiner, who joins the HI research team led by B. Koribalski. He and the team (Jing Wang, Karen Lee-Waddell, Juan Madrid and […]

ATNF Colloquium – Christmas FRBs and their multi-wavelength follow-ups

March 22, 2017

by Shivani Bhandari (Swinburne Uni) Abstract. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), exotic millisecond duration bursts which are now established as a bona fide astrophysical phenomenon are currently the hottest topic in […]

ATNF Colloquium – SKA Computing and Software

March 20, 2017

by Nick Rees (SKA Organisation) Abstract. not available yet

In the shadow of the dish

March 17, 2017

by Margaret McFee (CASS) The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) consist of six 22-m dishes, opeating from 1 to 105 GHz. Five dishes can be moved along the east-west railway […]