ASKAP localisation of a Fast Radio Burst – by Bannister et al.

July 4, 2019

In a paper published in Science , Bannister et al. describe observations with ASKAP to determine the precise location of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB). A real-time search pipeline identified […]

ATNF Colloquium – Energetics and lifecycles of radio galaxies: what can models tell us?

July 3, 2019

Stas Shabala (University of Tasmania) Abstract: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a key role in the formation and evolution of galaxies by imparting copious amounts of energy to their surroundings. […]

ASKAP localisation of a Fast Radio Burst – by Bannister et al.

July 2, 2019

In a paper published in Science , Bannister et al. describe observations with ASKAP to determine the precise location of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB). The galaxy from which the […]

ATNF Colloquium – NASA’s Evolving Space Communication and Navigation

July 1, 2019

Badri Younes (NASA) Abstract: As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and its historic landing on the Moon, NASA is preparing to once again send humans deep into […]

ATNF Colloquium – Galaxy evolution from a radio perspective: lesson learned from extra-galactic deep fields

June 28, 2019

Isabella Prandoni (INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomia) Abstract: A wealth of new data from upgraded and new radio interferometers are rapidly improving and transforming our understanding of the faint extra-galactic […]

CASS Radio School 2019

June 27, 2019

The CASS Radio School 2019 will be held at the Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, NSW from Monday 30th September to Friday 4th October 2019. The format of the […]

ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT early science of the Fornax galaxy Cluster.

June 26, 2019

by Dane Kleiner (Osservatorio Astronomico Cagliari – INAF) Abstract: I will present new results from MeerKAT commissioning observations of the Fornax galaxy cluster. In preparation for the upcoming MeerKAT Fornax […]

ASKAP Commissioning Update for June – by Aidan Hotan

June 25, 2019

The ASKAP Commissioning Update for June describes the public release of data from the first science test field observed with the full ASKAP array. The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) […]

Fish-eye view of ASKAP

June 21, 2019

This fish-eye view of ASKAP was one of a number of images taken by Alex Cherney with the antennas illuminated for the occasion.

ASKAP survey of the Galactic plane for dispersed radio pulses – by Qiu et al.

June 20, 2019

Qiu et al. report the results from an ASKAP survey of the Galactic plane for dispersed single pulses. Radio waves are dispersed in time, with longer wavelengths arriving later, due […]

ATNF Colloquium – First Images of a Supermassive Black Hole

June 19, 2019

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan (University of Concepcion, Chile) Abstract: This talk will present the transformational science enabled by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to study the physics of, and near, the supermassive […]

Annual Reviews article on FRBs

June 18, 2019

Cordes and Chatterjee have an article in the upcoming Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics entitled “Fast Radio Bursts: An Extragalactic Enigma”. The figure above shows Dispersion Measures (DMs) plotted […]