VAST Pilot Survey Observations Completed – by Emil Lenc
March 6, 2020
The ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) has recently completed 100 hours of observations as part of an ASKAP pilot survey spanning a period of just over five […]
SKA booth at Perth AstroFest
March 5, 2020
The annual Perth AstroFest was held last weekend at Curtin University Stadium. Organised by Astronomy WA and ICRAR, Astrofest is a free event featuring an astrophotography exhibition, inflatable planetariums, science […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment – CHIME
March 4, 2020
Tom Landecker (DRAO, NRC Canada) Abstract: The CHIME radio telescope was designed to map the matter distribution in the Universe over the redshift range 0.8 to 2.5, to cover the […]
CASS booth at Perth AstroFest
March 3, 2020
The annual Perth AstroFest was held last weekend at Curtin University Stadium. Organised by Astronomy WA and ICRAR, Astrofest is a free event featuring an astrophotography exhibition, inflatable planetariums, science […]
SKA Calendar for March
March 2, 2020
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) calendar for 2020 celebrates the SKA family of pathfinder telescopes. March focuses on LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array), an SKA pathfinder with its core in […]
Vale John Murray
February 28, 2020
John Murray, a leading receiver engineer from the early days of Australian radio astronomy, passed away recently at the age of 95. Murray joined CSIRO’s Division of Radiophysics in 1947, […]
ASKAP update for February
February 27, 2020
The February 2020 edition of the ASKAP update is now available. In addition to news on the progress of the pilot surveys, the newsletter describes the SWAG-X project undertaken in […]
ATNF Colloquium – Massive scale pulsar timing with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
February 26, 2020
Marcus Lower (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract: The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) played an integral role in the early years of pulsar astronomy, discovering more than half of all […]
ATCA OH Maser observations for the SPLASH Survey – by Qiao et al.
February 25, 2020
Ground-state OH masers are relatively common in the vicinity of high-mass star formation (HMSF), the circumstellar envelopes of evolved giant and supergiant stars, and the interaction regions of supernova remnants […]
ATCA OH Maser observations for the SPLASH Survey – by Qiao et al.
February 24, 2020
Ground-state OH masers are relatively common in the vicinity of high-mass star formation (HMSF), the circumstellar envelopes of evolved giant and supergiant stars, and the interaction regions of supernova remnants […]
ATCA OH Maser observations for the SPLASH Survey – by Qiao et al.
February 21, 2020
Qiao et al. present high spatial resolution observations of ground-state OH masers achieved with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). These observations targeted 253 pointing centres containing OH maser candidates […]
ATCA OH Maser observations for the SPLASH Survey – by Qiao et al.
February 20, 2020
Ground-state hydroxyl (OH) transitions arise from four hyperfine sub-levels within the lowest rotational state, with “main line” frequencies of 1665.402 and 1667.359 MHz and “satellite line” frequencies of 1612.231 and […]
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