ATNF Colloquium – The Frontier in Low Frequency Radio Astrophysics from the Farside of the Moon

March 6, 2024

Nivedita Mahesh (California Institute of Technology) Abstract: The Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE) is a NASA Probe-class concept to place a low-frequency […]

A radio flare associated with eRASSt J234403−352640: a potential tidal disruption event – by Goodwin et al.

March 5, 2024

When mass is suddenly accreted onto a super-massive black hole, the release of gravitational energy powers some of the most explosive phenomena in the Universe. Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are […]

The view from the Moon

March 4, 2024

Intuitive Machines lunar lander, Odysseus, was powered down last week just before it entered the two-week lunar night. One of the last images it sent back was this picture taken […]

CSIRO at Sydney Mardi Gras

March 1, 2024

To solve the greatest challenges through our science and technology, CSIRO needs the best people and diverse teams. CSIRO has marched in the Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney since 2019 […]

Survey and Monitoring of ASKAP’s RFI environment and Trends – by Lourenço et al.

February 29, 2024

Lourenço et al. present an initial analysis of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) flagging statistics from archived Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations for the Survey and Monitoring of ASKAP’s RFI environment […]

ATNF Colloquium – Stellar-wind-fed magnetospheres of magnetic massive stars

February 28, 2024

Stanley Owocki (University of Delaware) Abstract: A sub-population (~9%) of hot (OB) stars exhibit strong (B~100-10,000 G), large-scale (often predominantly dipolar) magnetic fields that channel their stellar wind outflows into […]

HI, FRB, What’s Your z? – by Glowacki et al.

February 27, 2024

Identification and follow-up observations of the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) not only help us understand the environments in which the FRB progenitors reside, but also provide a […]

Parkes Observatory tracking Odysseus

February 26, 2024

CSIRO is part of Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Data Network which is seeing Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, being used to support Intuitive Machines’ first lunar mission. Odysseus, the lunar lander, […]

Smile, and the Universe smiles with you – by Duchesne et al.

February 23, 2024

A few years ago, JPL issued a press release with the title Smile, and the Universe smiles with you , describing a Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy cluster […]

M2P2 — the Maser Monitoring Parkes Project

February 22, 2024

Hafner et al. describe the Maser Monitoring Parkes Project (M2P2), an ongoing prograsm to observe masers towards high-mass star-forming regions (HMSFRs) using Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope. In a […]

ASKAP Update for February

February 21, 2024

The ASKAP Update for February reports on the status of CASDA (the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive), the resumption of survey operations, the next RACS (Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey) epoch, […]

Parkes Observatory tracking IM-1

February 20, 2024

CSIRO is part of Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Data Network which is seeing Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, being used to support Intuitive Machines’ first lunar mission, IM-1, which was successfully […]