May 29, 2020
Riseley et al. have published the second paper from the POlarised GLEAM Survey, where GLEAM is the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-Sky Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Survey. The survey covers the […]
May 28, 2020
The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla has a number of antennas, with the 70m DSS-43 the largest. DSS-43 is currently undergoing a once-a-decade Depot-Level-Maintenance period, which started on […]
May 27, 2020
James Gilbert & Joice Mathew (RSAA, ANU) Abstract: The ‘Emu’ payload is a compact wide-field photometer destined for a 6-month astronomy mission aboard the International Space Station. Its detector technology […]
May 26, 2020
Completed in 2016, the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in southern China is the world’s largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio telescope. Since late 2017, scientists in both Australia and […]
May 25, 2020
On the 14th May 2020 at 08:58:55 UT, we finished observing the first round of ASKAP Pilot Surveys. These surveys began officially on 15th July 2019 at 10:08:44 UT, which […]
May 22, 2020
Pulsars are rapdily rotating, highly magnetised neutron stars which generate beams of radio emission. While most pulsars are always “on”, some pulsars display pulse nulling, in which the pulsed emission […]
May 21, 2020
Pulsars are rapdily rotating, highly magnetised neutron stars which generate beams of radio emission. While most pulsars are always “on”, some pulsars display pulse nulling, in which the pulsed emission […]
May 20, 2020
Michelle Cluver (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract: With the majority of galaxies in the local universe located in galaxy groups, these environments are considered key to understanding the evolution of […]
May 19, 2020
The ASKAP Update for May is now available, and includes news on the release of Pilot Survey data into CASDA (the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive). The public release of […]
May 18, 2020
The ASKAP Pilot Survey program was designed to test strategies that have been developed by ASKAP’s science teams and determine the telescope’s readiness for full-scale surveys. An allocation of 100 […]
May 15, 2020
Shared Sky brings together Aboriginal Australian and South African artists in a collaborative exhibition celebrating ancient cultural wisdom. The exhibition embodies the spirit of the international science and engineering collaboration […]
May 14, 2020
The radio source PKS B1934-638 is a Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum source that is widely used a primary calibrator source for radio interferometers in the southern hemisphere, as it is extremely […]
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.
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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.