Exploring the Unknown with Radio Surveys

May 15, 2023

The conference Exploring the Unknown with Radio Surveys: A Celebration of the Career of Ray Norris is being held this week to celebrate the career of Ray Norris. Ray moved […]

A broad-band population view of pulsar polarisation

May 12, 2023

Oswald et al. have undertaken a study of the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on circular polarization, using high quality observations made with the Ultra-Wideband Low […]

A broad-band population view of pulsar polarisation

May 11, 2023

In the classic picture of radio pulsar polarization, pulsars can be anything from strongly to weakly polarized, with polarization that is predominantly linear (typically ~20%, though up to 100% in […]

ATNF Colloquium – Recent Advances in Solar Radio Imaging Spectroscopy

May 10, 2023

Dale Gary (NJIT) Abstract: An impressive number of new radio instruments have appeared on the scene, or are in the planning stages, that perform high-resolution imaging at many closely spaced […]

Hydra cluster galaxies in the radio and ultra-violet

May 9, 2023

The 21cm line emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a rich source of information about gas-rich galaxies. This gas usually spans a larger disk than stars and it is believed […]

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected

May 8, 2023

The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever seen, GRB 221009A, was first reported when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected X-rays on 9 October 2022. Calculations show that for the few […]

Another eclipse!

May 5, 2023

The image above shows ASKAP observing during the solar eclipse on April 20th. (And it is apparent ASKAP is pointing close to the Sun as the shadow of the PAF […]

ATNF Annual Report

May 4, 2023

The 2021/2022 ATNF Annual Report is now available on-line. The document covers the ATNF’s Key Performance Indicators, highlights for each of the ATNF telescopes and programs, and listings of scheduled […]

ATNF Colloquium – How astronomers can be part of the solution to climate change

May 3, 2023

Travis Rector (University of Alaska) Abstract: From a social, environmental, and political standpoint climate change is the most important scientific topic of our time. Fortunately we can still avoid the […]

ASKAP Update for April – by Aidan Hotan

May 2, 2023

April’s ASKAP update describes plans to resume survey operations and assess the performance of Setonix as the new data processing platform, summarises a new ASKAPsoft release, and gives details of […]

Parkes Pulsar Data Published in CSIRO’s Data Access Portal for 2022OCTS – by Lawrence Toomey

May 1, 2023

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal (https://data.csiro.au/) contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 4 Petabytes from the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, available for download. The DAP is […]