ICRAR-con
October 8, 2019
The fourth ICRAR-Con recently took place at Pullman Bunker Bay Resort. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), which was founded in September 2009, is a joint venture between […]
Sputnik launch anniversary
October 4, 2019
Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union into low Earth orbit on this day in the International Geophysical Year, 1957. Sputnik transmitted radio signals […]
An ATCA survey of HI absorption in the SMC – by Jameson et al.
October 3, 2019
Jameson et al. have presented the results from a new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) HI absorption survey towards 55 sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. They combined the new […]
An ATCA survey of HI absorption in the SMC – by Jameson et al.
October 2, 2019
Jameson et al. have presented the results from a new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) HI absorption survey towards 55 sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. They combined the new […]
An ATCA survey of HI absorption in the SMC – by Jameson et al.
October 1, 2019
Atomic hydrogen gas (HI) is usually the predominant gas in a galaxy. The HI is expected to be split between a cool (~100 K), denser phase and a warm, more […]
An ASKAP survey for HI absorption towards dust-obscured quasars – by Glowacki et al.
September 30, 2019
Glowacki et al. present the results of a HI absorption line survey at towards 34 obscured quasars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) commissioning array. They detect three HI absorption […]
Using an FRB to study a galactic halo – by Prochaska et al.
September 27, 2019
Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, Prochaska et al. have used a fast radio burst to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy. A vast […]
An ASKAP survey for HI absorption towards dust-obscured quasars – by Glowacki et al.
September 26, 2019
Obscuration of quasars by accreted gas and dust, or dusty intervening galaxies, can cause active galactic nuclei (AGN) to be missed in optically-selected surveys. Radio observations can overcome this dust […]
ATNF Colloquium – The VLA Sky Survey and other NRAO Initiatives
September 25, 2019
Joshua Marvil (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Abstract: The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is a sensitive (~70 uJy/beam), high angular resolution (~2.5 arcsecond) all-sky radio survey of continuum and […]
The emu in the ATCA sky
September 20, 2019
The image above was taken during the visit by the CASS vacation students to the ATCA last January. The clear night skies show the Southern Cross, the Pointers, the Large […]
Excited extragalactic OH – by Eisner et al.
September 19, 2019
Centimeter-wave transitions are important counterparts to the rotational mm-wave transitions usually observed to study gas in star-forming regions. However, given their relative weakness, these transitions have historically been neglected. Eisner […]
ATNF Colloquium – A VLA Polarimetric Study of the Galactic Center Radio Arc
September 18, 2019
Dylan Paré (University of Iowa) Abstract: The Galactic Center (GC) is a unique observational target containing molecular cloud densities, magnetic field strengths, and gas temperatures more extreme than found elsewhere […]
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