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May 7, 2019

The young pulsar PSR B1828−11 was discovered with the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the late 1980s. With a pulse period is 405 ms, a dispersion measure […]

May 6, 2019

Most pulsars spin down at a steady rate, however the young pulsar PSR B1828−11 has long been known to show correlated shape and spin-down changes with timescales of roughly 500 […]

May 3, 2019

Parkash et al. have examined a sample of 91 galaxies, selected from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS), that infrared observations suggest have little or no star formation. Inspection of […]

May 2, 2019

Katie Jameson has joined CASS as a Bolton Fellow after working for the past few years as a postdoc at ANU with Prof. Naomi McClure-Griffiths studying the properties of the […]

May 1, 2019

Marcin Glowacki (IDIA/Uni. of the Western Cape) Abstract: In this talk, I will first summarise my PhD thesis work focusing on two HI absorption surveys. One was undertaken with the […]

April 30, 2019

The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory is located on Wajarri Yamaji land about 700km north-east from Perth, in a legislated Radio Quiet Zone. Yesterday’s ADAP showed the introductory image to the new […]

April 29, 2019

The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory is located on Wajarri Yamaji land about 700km north-east from Perth, in a legislated Radio Quiet Zone. It is now possible to take a virtual tour […]

April 26, 2019

The pulsar PSR J1926-0652 was recently discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. Using sensitive single-pulse detections from FAST and long-term timing observations from the Parkes […]

April 24, 2019

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was established in 1926 and was the forerunner to CSIRO. It was not until 1949 that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research […]

April 23, 2019

The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is a transformational next step in ground-based TeV (10^12 electron-volt) gamma-ray astronomy. It will utilise the successful methods employed by H.E.S.S. and others in the […]

April 18, 2019

The Australian SKA Pathfinder Array (ASKAP) Early Science and Commissioning (ACES) team has started reviewing the data from the newly available “zoom” modes on ASKAP, which provide higher spectral resolution. […]

April 17, 2019

Mark Krumholz (ANU) Abstract: In this talk, I review attempts to build a self-consistent model for the dynamical state of the ISM in star-forming galactic discs. Ideally such a model […]


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.