ATNF Colloquium – Examining the validity of the Rotating Vector Model in Pulsars

December 6, 2023

Dipanjan Mitra (NCRA, TIFR) Abstract: More than Fifty years have passed since the discovery of pulsars, yet the physical mechanism of their coherent radio emission is unclear. The linear polarization […]

CRAFT busy week

December 5, 2023

CRAFT (The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients survey) is an ASKAP Survey Science Project for transient sources with timescales shorter than 5 seconds. Its aim is to take advantage of […]

CSIRO Awards

December 4, 2023

CSIRO recognises the efforts of its staff at an annual Ceremony, with awards presented in a number of categories. Among them, the Medal for Support Excellence recognises teams or individuals […]

November issue of Contact

December 1, 2023

The November issue of Contact, the SKAO’s magazine, is now out. Articles include updates on SKA-Low and SKA-Mid construction activities, the recent visit of the SKAO Council to Australia, and […]

de Laeter Colloquium – WST – The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope

November 30, 2023

Professor Roland Bacon (Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon) Abstract: The WST project aim to study and built an innovative 10-m class wide-field spectroscopic survey telescope (WST) in the southern […]

ATNF Colloquium – Magnetic fields in the Milky Way from pulsar observations

November 29, 2023

Amit Seta (ANU) Abstract: Pulsars can act as an excellent probe of the Milky Way magnetic field. The average strength of the Galactic magnetic field component parallel to the line […]

ASKAP Update for November

November 28, 2023

The ASKAP update for November reports on survey progress, the latest ASKAPsoft pipeline software release and plans to improve ASKAP’s astrometry. It has long been known that individual ASKAP observations […]

Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara visitors

November 27, 2023

An ADAP last month noted that new CSIRO Chief Executive Doug Hilton visited Parkes in his first days, and he has followed up this month with a visit to Inyarrimanha […]

FLASH busy week

November 24, 2023

FLASH — The First Large Absorption Survey in HI — is an AKSAP Survey Science Project. FLASH will take advantage of ASKAP’s large spectral bandwidth (288 MHz) and wide field […]

FLASH busy week

November 23, 2023

FLASH — The First Large Absorption Survey in HI — is an AKSAP Survey Science Project. FLASH will detect and measure several hundred HI (neutral hydrogen) absorption lines — from […]

ATNF Colloquium – Different Angles on Accreting Supermassive Black Holes

November 22, 2023

Prajval Shastri (RRI/ICRAR) Abstract: Supermassive black holes appear to inhabit the centres of most galaxies and co-evolve with them, thus playing a significant role in regulating galaxy assembly. We are […]

ATCA Study of Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2–7219 – by Alsaberi et al.

November 21, 2023

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a gas-rich irregular dwarf galaxy orbiting out own galaxy. As the second nearest star-forming galaxy after the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), its relatively small […]