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September 30, 2019

Glowacki et al. present the results of a HI absorption line survey at towards 34 obscured quasars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) commissioning array. They detect three HI absorption […]

September 27, 2019

Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, Prochaska et al. have used a fast radio burst to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy. A vast […]

September 26, 2019

Obscuration of quasars by accreted gas and dust, or dusty intervening galaxies, can cause active galactic nuclei (AGN) to be missed in optically-selected surveys. Radio observations can overcome this dust […]

September 25, 2019

Joshua Marvil (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Abstract: The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is a sensitive (~70 uJy/beam), high angular resolution (~2.5 arcsecond) all-sky radio survey of continuum and […]

September 20, 2019

The image above was taken during the visit by the CASS vacation students to the ATCA last January. The clear night skies show the Southern Cross, the Pointers, the Large […]

September 19, 2019

Centimeter-wave transitions are important counterparts to the rotational mm-wave transitions usually observed to study gas in star-forming regions. However, given their relative weakness, these transitions have historically been neglected. Eisner […]

September 18, 2019

Dylan Paré (University of Iowa) Abstract: The Galactic Center (GC) is a unique observational target containing molecular cloud densities, magnetic field strengths, and gas temperatures more extreme than found elsewhere […]

September 17, 2019

Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a type of pulsar characterised by their sporadic bursting emission of single pulses on time scales of minutes to hours. In addition to the difficulty […]

September 16, 2019

The image above is of a thunderstorm near Narrabri. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) site was initially established as the site for the Culgoora Radio-heliograph , and the top […]

September 13, 2019

In a paper published in Nature this week, Miniutti et al. report on quasi-periodic X-ray bursts from a low mass black hole galactic nucleus. XMM-Newton, the most sensitive X-ray observatory, […]

September 12, 2019

Stars classified as active M-dwarfs are known to produce bursts of radio emission, and multi-wavelength studies have shown that magnetic activity, similar to that observed on the Sun, occurs in […]

September 11, 2019

Abhimanyu Susobhanan (Tata Institute) Abstract: Individual Super-massive Black Hole Binaries in non-circular orbits are possible nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays. We develop an accurate and efficient […]


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.