Issue 9 of Contact, the SKA Magazine

November 22, 2021

Issue 9 of Contact , the SKA Magazine, is now available. The issue contains articles on the signing of the hosting agreements with Australia and South Africa, the second SKA […]

VLBI in the SKA Era

November 19, 2021

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is essential to enable high-impact radio astronomy science capability, including radio imaging at sub-arcsecond resolution, crucial astrometric measurements, and geodesy. Each of the two telescopes […]

Early Parkes image of Pictor A

November 18, 2021

The Parkes telescope was designed to be able to observe with high efficiency at 21cm, the wavelength of the astronomically immportant neutral hydrogen spectral line. But early experience indicated with […]

ASKAP Update for November 2021

November 17, 2021

The ASKAP Update for November describes preparations for 2022, Pilot Survey Phase II progress, plans for observatory operations over the holiday period, and a bug founnd in the ASKAP processing […]

Cricket on the Dish

November 16, 2021

Yesterday’s ADAP combined both The Dish and cricket, and one of the lasting impressions from the movie appears to be that staff used to play cricket on the surface of […]

Parkes Telescope’s 42nd Birthday

November 15, 2021

Recent ADAPs have celebrated the 60th birthday of the Parkes 64m radio telescope, which a year ago was given the Wiradjuri name Murriyang . Friday’s ADAP showed the birthday cake […]

Parkes Telescope’s 42nd Birthday

November 12, 2021

Recent ADAPs have celebrated the 60th birthday of the Parkes 64m radio telescope, which a year ago this week was given the Wiradjuri name Murriyang . The image above however […]

HI absorption detection in front of a lobe of the bright radio galaxy PKS0409-75 at z~0.7 – by Elizabeth Mahony

November 11, 2021

In preparation for the First Large Absorption line survey in HI absorption (FLASH) to be carried out with ASKAP, Mahony et al. recently published a pilot study searching for 21-cm […]

ATNF Colloquium – An Interview with an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole: Gravitational-Wave Signal GW190521

November 10, 2021

Isobel Romero-Shaw (Monash University/OzGrav) Abstract: On the 21st of May, 2019, gravitational-wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected something we had never seen before. The short signal they captured — more […]

Parkes Pulsar Data Published in CSIRO’s Data Access Portal for 2021APRS – by Lawrence Toomey

November 9, 2021

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 1.9 Petabytes from the Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is VO compatible […]

Welcome Marcus Lower

November 8, 2021

We welcome Marcus Lower, who has joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy as a Research Plus Postdoc in Marsfield. Marcus recently submitted his PhD on “Exploring the magnetospheric and rotational properties […]

Parkes 60th Anniversary

November 5, 2021

The Parkes telescope’s 60th birthday was celebrated on Monday with the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the telescope’s National Heritage listing. The event included the cutting of a 60th birthday […]