A new all-sky map of high-velocity clouds
December 8, 2017
by Tobias Westmeier (ICRAR/UWA) Using the recent data release from the HI4PI survey , Westmeier (2018) created a new all-sky map of HI emission from high-velocity clouds (HVCs) with significantly […]
Parkes polarimetry of 600 pulsars
December 7, 2017
by Simon Johnston (CASS) In a recent paper accepted by MNRAS, Simon Johnston and Matthew Kerr present polarization properties for 600 pulsars from observations with the Parkes radio telescope at […]
ATNF Colloquium – 2D Bayesian Automated Tilted-ring fitting of disk galaxies in large HI galaxy surveys: 2DBAT
December 6, 2017
by Se-Heon Oh (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) Abstract. The WALLABY kinematics working group has defined a detailed strategy to parameterise the kinematics of spatially resolved disk-dominated galaxies from […]
Parkes discovers more Fast Radio Bursts
December 5, 2017
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Bhandari et al. (2017) report the discovery of four further Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the 64-m Parkes telescope as part of the ongoing SUPERB survey […]
Welcome to our summer students
December 4, 2017
by Rob Hollow (CASS) CASS has welcomed undergraduate students from across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for the 2017 – 2018 Undergraduate vacation Scholarship program. This year’s program has […]
ASKAP Phased Array Feed roll-out complete
December 1, 2017
On Tuesday 21st November 2017, our 36th Phased Array Feed (PAF) was installed on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), marking the completion of installation of all receivers for ASKAP-36! We […]
A PAF on Parkes would be cool !
November 30, 2017
On 10 Feb 2016 a Phased-Array Feed (PAF) was hoisted into the focus cabin of the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. The PAF is based on the ASKAP design and forms […]
Mapping Gas and Dark Matter in Galaxies
November 29, 2017
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) One of the ATCA science drivers, identified by the user community, is the study of “Galaxy Formation and Evolution” in strong partnership with the Australian SKA […]
Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe
November 28, 2017
A pulsar is a small, spinning star – a giant ball of neutrons, left behind after a normal star has died in a fiery explosion. With a diameter of only […]
Class I methanol masers in NGC 253: Alcohol at the end of the bar
November 27, 2017
by Simon Ellingsen (UTas) Centre panel: ATCA image of the integrated 36.2-GHz methanol emission (cyan contours at 0.24, 0.34, 0.44 and 0.54 Jy km/s/beam) and 7-mm continuum emission (green contours […]
Mapping Gas and Dark Matter in Galaxies
November 24, 2017
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) One of the ATCA science drivers, identified by the user community, is the study of “Galaxy Formation and Evolution” in strong partnership with the Australian SKA […]
ASKAP Phased Array Feed roll-out complete
November 23, 2017
by Adrian Rispler (CASS) On Tuesday 21st November, our 36th PAF was installed on AK #29 marking the completion of installation of all receivers for ASKAP-36! Earlier this month, our […]
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.