ATNF Colloquium – A Universal Murder Mystery – What is killing galaxies?

September 13, 2023

Luke Davies (UWA) Abstract: The Universe is dying. All across the cosmos for the last 10 billion years galaxies have been continuously killed, and we still don’t know why. Today […]

Testing General Relativity with the PSR J1757-1854 double neutron star system – by Cameron et al.

September 12, 2023

PSR J1757−1854 is one of the most relativistic double neutron star binary systems known in our Galaxy, with an orbital period of 4.4 hr and an orbital eccentricity of 0.61. […]

Rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A – by Anderson et al.

September 11, 2023

Anderson et al. report the detection of the rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A with the ATCA just 11 h post-burst. Early-time radio variability was tracked over a 5 hr […]

Vice Regal visit to Parkes

September 8, 2023

The Australian Governor-General David Hurley and his wife Linda were in Parkes yesterday and visited the Parkes Observatory during their stay. The Governor-General and Mrs Hurley were greeted on their […]

Variables and Slow Transients workshop – by Laura Driessen

September 7, 2023

Over the last three days of August the Variables and Slow Transients with ASKAP (VAST) survey team got together at CSIRO Marsfield to talk all about radio transients with ASKAP. […]

ATNF Colloquium – ASKAP-FLASH: New searches for extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption at 0.4

September 6, 2023

Hyein Yoon (U Syd) Abstract: FLASH (the First Large Absorption Survey in HI) is a wide-field radio survey searching for 21-cm line absorption at 0.4

EMU discovery of a large supernova remnant – by Filipović et al.

September 5, 2023

Filipović et al. present the serendipitous detection of a new Galactic Supernova Remnant (SNR), G288.8-6.3, using data from the ASKAP-EMU survey. A multi-frequency analysis confirms this object as an evolved […]

A long-lasting delayed radio flare from a tidal disruption event – by Sfaradi et al.

September 4, 2023

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and gets torn apart by the tidal forces exerted on it by […]

ASKAP discovery of candidate supernova remnants – by Ball et al.

September 1, 2023

Ball et al. have used data from the pilot observations of the EMU/POSSUM surveys to study the “missing supernova remnant (SNR) problem” — the discrepancy between the number of Galactic […]