International Women’s Day: Mary Stahr Carpenter
March 9, 2021
With yesterday marking International Women’s Day, today we recall the work of American astronomer Martha Stahr Carpenter. In her first year of college, Carpenter took an astronomy course given by […]
International Women’s Day: Ruby Payne-Scott
March 8, 2021
We celebrate International Women’s Day by reviewing the career of pioneering radio-astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott . In 1941 Ruby joined the CSIR Division of Radiophysics as a research scientist, working on […]
ATCA and ALMA observations of Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxies – by Riechers et al.
March 5, 2021
Hyper-luminous infrared galaxies (HyLIRGs) represent the most intensely star-forming galaxies through cosmic history. While rare at any epoch, they are particularly uncommon in the early universe, when structure formation had […]
What we know about FRBs
March 4, 2021
In a recent article for The Conversation , Ryan Shannon (Swinburne) and Keith Bannister (CASS) summarise what we have learnt about Fast Radio Bursts since their discovery in 2007, the […]
ATNF Colloquium – Geometric Intuition and Image-plane Methods for Measuring Closure Phases in Interferometry
March 3, 2021
Nithya Thyagarajan (CASS) Abstract: In interferometric applications, closure phase refers to the phase of the product of spatial coherences obtained around a closed loop of interferometer elements. Its property of […]
Welcome Nikhel Gupta
March 2, 2021
We welcome Nikhel Gupta, who has joined CASS as a Future Science Platform Postdoc at Kensington. In his role at CASS, Nikhel will be developing machine learning techniques to classify […]
Governor of NSW visits Parkes
March 1, 2021
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, the Governor of New South Wales, visited the Parkes region recently, and included a visit to the CSIRO Parkes Observatory, where she […]
Governor of NSW visits Parkes
February 26, 2021
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, the Governor of New South Wales, visited the Parkes region recently, and included a visit to the CSIRO Parkes Observatory. The Governor […]
The remnant radio galaxy MIDAS J225607-343212 – by Quici et al.
February 25, 2021
The extensive lobes of radio galaxies are powered by jets launched from the environment of the super-massive black hole at the core of the galaxy. During this active phase the […]
ATNF Colloquium – Astronomy Australia Limited update
February 24, 2021
James Murray Abstract: AAL will be presenting a general update on their activities of the past year or so, as well as current projects and funding arrangements. There have been […]
The remnant radio galaxy MIDAS J230104-334939 – by Quici et al.
February 23, 2021
The extensive lobes of radio galaxies are powered by jets launched from the environment of the super-massive black hole at the core of the galaxy. During this active phase the […]
ASKAP Update for February
February 22, 2021
The ASKAP Update for February is now available, and includes the latest plans for technical test observations and progress towards some of the key development goals required for Pilot Surveys […]
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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