February 28, 2018
by Themiya Nanayakkara (Leiden) Abstract. In the quest for identifying pop-III stars, the most sought-after emission line is He II, however, stellar population models are unable to accurately predict the […]
February 27, 2018
One of last week’s ADAP’s showed an antenna of the Culgoora Radioheliograph, an array of 96 dishes spaced around a ring with a 3km diameter which operated at 80 and […]
February 26, 2018
by Juan Madrid Using the Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph (GMOS), Madrid et al. searched for optical counterparts of two massive (∼a billion solar masses) neutral hydrogen clouds near the spiral […]
February 23, 2018
Han et al. present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars, observed by the Parkes 64 m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100 m radio telescope, to analyze […]
February 22, 2018
The image above, dating from 1968, is taken from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive and shows sunset behind one of the antennas of the Culgoora radio-heliograph. The radio-heliograph had […]
February 21, 2018
The image above, dating from January 1953, is taken from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. The picture shows CSIRO staff working on a 36 ft (11 m) diameter antenna […]
February 20, 2018
Jane Kaczmarek recently graduated with a PhD in Physics from the University of Sydney. She now joins CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science as a post-doctoral fellow in a role that […]
February 19, 2018
by Robert Braun (SKAO) Abstract. Progress on developing the SKA1 design and prototypes will be presented, including up-dated estimates of the anticipated scientific performance in terms of both sensitivity and […]
February 16, 2018
A picture of all the presenters from last week’s launch at the University of Sydney of the book Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell by Frater, Goss […]
February 15, 2018
After a program of presentations about each of the Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy — Ron Bracewell, Paul Wild, Bernie Mills, and Chris Christiansen — the book was officially launched […]
February 14, 2018
by Jielai Zhang (University of Toronto) Abstract. The low surface brightness Universe is largely unexplored. The limiting factors for low surface brightness observations are not photon statistics or image resolution, […]
February 13, 2018
The launch of the book Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy , by Frater, Goss and Wendt, was held at the University of Sydney last Friday. The program for the book […]
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.