The first SKA Data challenge
May 14, 2019
The Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) released its first Science Data Challenge earlier this year. Developed by the SKAO’s Project Science team, the challenge requires the analysis of a series […]
ATCA, from the CSIRO image library
May 13, 2019
Scienceimage is an image library, presented by CSIRO, specialising in science and nature images. The image above , from that collection, shows two antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. […]
Parkes Pulsar Data Published in CSIRO’s Data Access Portal for 2018OCTS – (by Lawrence Toomey)
May 9, 2019
CSIRO’s Data Access Portal (/) contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 1.2 Petabytes from the Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is Virtual […]
ATNF Colloquium – Unveiling the Cygnus region with radio waves
May 8, 2019
Paula Benaglia (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía) Abstract: The Cygnus region of the sky is extremely rich in stars at different evolutionary stages. However, large clouds absorb much of its optical […]
Mode switching and oscillations in PSR B1828-11 – (by Stairs et al.)
May 7, 2019
The young pulsar PSR B1828−11 was discovered with the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the late 1980s. With a pulse period is 405 ms, a dispersion measure […]
Mode switching and oscillations in PSR B1828-11 – (by Stairs et al.)
May 6, 2019
Most pulsars spin down at a steady rate, however the young pulsar PSR B1828−11 has long been known to show correlated shape and spin-down changes with timescales of roughly 500 […]
HIPASS galaxies with low star formation – (by Parkash et al.)
May 3, 2019
Parkash et al. have examined a sample of 91 galaxies, selected from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS), that infrared observations suggest have little or no star formation. Inspection of […]
Welcome Katie Jameson
May 2, 2019
Katie Jameson has joined CASS as a Bolton Fellow after working for the past few years as a postdoc at ANU with Prof. Naomi McClure-Griffiths studying the properties of the […]
ATNF Colloquium – From HI absorption surveys to simulations for SKA Pathfinder surveys
May 1, 2019
Marcin Glowacki (IDIA/Uni. of the Western Cape) Abstract: In this talk, I will first summarise my PhD thesis work focusing on two HI absorption surveys. One was undertaken with the […]
MRO Virtual Tour
April 30, 2019
The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory is located on Wajarri Yamaji land about 700km north-east from Perth, in a legislated Radio Quiet Zone. Yesterday’s ADAP showed the introductory image to the new […]
MRO Virtual Tour
April 29, 2019
The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory is located on Wajarri Yamaji land about 700km north-east from Perth, in a legislated Radio Quiet Zone. It is now possible to take a virtual tour […]
The FAST pulsar J1926-0652 – by Zhang et al.
April 26, 2019
The pulsar PSR J1926-0652 was recently discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. Using sensitive single-pulse detections from FAST and long-term timing observations from the Parkes […]
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.