The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey – by Shimwell et al.

December 6, 2018

A large international team, including current and former CASS staff, has issued the first data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). LoTSS is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz […]

ATNF Colloquium – Towards detection of radio signatures of cosmic dawn

December 5, 2018

by Ravi Subrahmanyan (Raman Research Institute) Abstract: As first light from the first stars transforms the universe from the dark ages into cosmic dawn, the history may be traced in […]

ASKAP under the Milky Way

December 4, 2018

Thirty years ago, the Australian band The Church released their single “Under the Milky Way”, which went on to be one of their most popular songs. Today’s image, taken 30 […]

A polarisation study of Cen A

December 3, 2018

ASKAP observations of linear polarisation in the southern lobe of Centaurus A have revealed extraordinarily detailed structure, showing that ASKAP will be a powerful instrument for widefield polarisation studies. It’s […]

A wide field map of intracluster globular clusters in Coma – by Juan Madrid

November 30, 2018

The image above shows the surface density of globular clusters in the central regions of the Coma cluster. This heat map defines three main overdensities of globular clusters in Coma. […]

The Australia Telescope Users Committee

November 29, 2018

Last week the Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) met at Marsfield. ATUC is a group of ten scientists who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility. This committee […]

ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT: performance, processing, pipelines and perspiration

November 28, 2018

by Jordan Collier (University of Cape Town) Abstract: A new kind of clock started when the South African president inaugurated MeerKAT during July 2018, and the public considered the telescope […]

A polarisation study of NGC 612

November 27, 2018

Banfield et al. present a polarization and Faraday rotation study of the hybrid morphology radio galaxy NGC 612 (PKS 0131-36), using Australian Telescope Compact Array observations in the 1–3 GHz […]

First images from NovaSAR-1

November 26, 2018

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a technology demonstration mission that was launched into a 580km sun-synchronous […]

Apep — a doomed star system – by Callingham et al.

November 23, 2018

A team of scientists have found a binary star system in our Galaxy – about 8000 light years from Earth – comprising a pair of luminous Wolf-Rayet stars, one of […]

ATNF 2017/18 Annual Report

November 22, 2018

The Australia Telescope National Facility Annual Report for 2017/18 is now available on-line. Until 2016, Annual Reports were based on the calendar year: from 2017/18 the Reports are based on […]

Parkes UWL results – by Dick Manchester

November 21, 2018

The plot above represents the first fully calibrated results from National Facility scheduled observing time with the Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver at Parkes. The observations were made last week, on […]