ATNF Colloquium – Insights into the AGN Life-cycle and Feedback from Low Frequency Radio Observations
April 6, 2022
Marisa Brienza (University of Bologna) Abstract: Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a recurrent phenomenon in a galaxy’s lifetime. Understanding their life-cycle is essential for quantifying the energetic impact […]
The CDSCC 70m and Orion
April 5, 2022
The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC), part of the Deep Space Network of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), celebrated its 57th anniversary last month, having been opened in March […]
Deep ASKAP EMU Survey of the GAMA23 field – by Gürkan et al.
April 4, 2022
Gürkan et al. have presented ASKAP observations of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) 23h field at 887.5 MHz. The derived radio source catalogue has 39812 entries, and the multi-wavelength […]
Deep ASKAP EMU Survey of the GAMA23 field – by Gürkan et al.
April 1, 2022
Gürkan et al. present ASKAP observations of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) 23h field. The survey was carried out at 887.5 MHz and covers a ∼83 square degree field. […]
Deep ASKAP EMU Survey of the GAMA23 field – by Gürkan et al.
March 31, 2022
Gürkan et al. present ASKAP observations of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) 23h field. The survey was carried out at 887.5 MHz and covers a ∼83 square degree field. […]
ASKAP DINGO pilot survey results – by Roychowdhury et al.
March 30, 2022
The Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO) is an ongoing deep survey of GAMA fields in HI 21 cm emission using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. Roychowdhury et […]
ATCA data flows
March 29, 2022
The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at Narrabri is built on the site of the Culgoora Radio-heliograph, which operated from 1967 to 1984. Five of the ATCA’s six 22-m antennas […]
ATCA data flows
March 28, 2022
The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at Narrabri is built on the site of the Culgoora Radio-heliograph, which operated from 1967 to 1984. Five of the ATCA’s six 22-m antennas […]
SKA Observatory Council meeting
March 25, 2022
The SKAO Council is the Observatory’s governing body representing Member States. The Council met earlier this month, and the image above shows SKAO Council Chairperson, Catherine Cesarsky, SKAO Director General, […]
MeerKAT follow-up of an ASKAP ORC
March 24, 2022
Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers. First revealed by the ASKAP radio telescope, ORCs quickly became objects of fascination. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Searching for New Physics on the last covid-free* continent
March 23, 2022
Christian Reichardt (U. Melbourne) Abstract: Measurements of the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are an important tool to test our understanding of the Universe. Searches for the faint […]
ASKAP views of the Galactic Plane
March 22, 2022
This month’s ASKAP update , described in yesterday’s ADAP, also contained the images above, of a portion of our galaxy. The images were made at 944 MHz on the left […]
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