Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2 – by Reardon et al.
September 14, 2021
The main goal of pulsar timing array experiments is to detect correlated signals, such as those expected from nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. Pulsar timing data collected in dense monitoring campaigns can […]
Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2 – by Reardon et al.
September 13, 2021
The main goal of pulsar timing array experiments is to detect correlated signals, such as those expected from nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. Pulsar timing data collected in dense monitoring campaigns can […]
Low frequency tests at Marsfield
September 10, 2021
Yesterday’s ADAP showed low frequency tests being undertaken at Parkes with an 50–350 MHz MWA antenna. Today’s picture shows an MWA antenna outside the engineering labs at Marsfield, where it […]
Low frequency tests at Parkes – by Ron Beresford
September 9, 2021
Trials were undertaken recently at Parkes with a small, potentially portable, VHF antenna for pulsar detection to explore the potential for global timing event synchronization. Experiments were conducted east of […]
Cloud Physics at Marsfield
September 8, 2021
Recent maintenance and repair work at Marsfield involved removing panels from the offices along what is now known as the “Astro corridor”. The backs of the panels revealed these rooms […]
Parkes CryoPAF preparations
September 7, 2021
A recent maintenance block at Parkes was used in part to run three fibre optic multicore cables from within the Focus Cabin to a rack in the Upstairs Control Room. […]
Parkes CryoPAF preparations
September 6, 2021
A recent maintenance block at Parkes was used in part to run three fibre optic multicore cables from within the Focus Cabin to a rack in the Upstairs Control Room. […]
ASKAP WALLABY dark galaxies – by Wong et al.
September 3, 2021
Previous HI (neutral hydrogen) surveys have revealed that ‘dark galaxies’ — HI-dominated systems with no optical counterparts — are very rare. Wong et al. present ASKAP WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band […]
ASKAP WALLABY dark galaxies – by Wong et al.
September 2, 2021
Previous HI (neutral hydrogen) surveys have revealed that ‘dark galaxies’ — HI-dominated systems with no optical counterparts — are very rare. These systems are often remnants of past tidal interactions […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Long Baseline Epoch of Reionisation Survey
September 1, 2021
Christene Lynch (ICRAR-Curtin) Abstract: One of the principal systematic constraints on the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) experiment is the accuracy of the foreground calibration model. Recent results have shown that […]
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