ATNF Colloquium – The first Large Survey Project observations with MeerKAT

October 10, 2018

by Ian Heywood (University of Oxford) Abstract: In April 2018 the South African MeerKAT array took its first full 64-dish observations for two of its upcoming Large Survey Projects, namely […]

ATCA imaging of the SN1987A remnant – (by Cendes et al.)

October 9, 2018

Cendes et al. report on updated radio imaging observations of the radio remnant of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) at 9 GHz, taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), covering […]

Sunlit Parkes, from the CSIRO image library

October 8, 2018

Scienceimage is an image library, presented by CSIRO, specialising in science and nature images. The image above of the Parkes 64m telescope , taken with a wide angle lens, is […]

ICRAR/CASS Radio School 2018 – by George Heald

October 5, 2018

The ATNF Radio Astronomy School has a long tradition of educating young radio astronomers about single-dish and interferometric techniques, and has been a powerful resource in fostering a strong Australian […]

Mopra observations of a mid-infrared bubble (by Kohno et al.)

October 4, 2018

Kohno et al. have performed a multi-wavelength study of the mid-infrared bubble GAL 334.53+00.83 to investigate the origin of isolated high-mass star and the star-formation process around the bubble formed […]

A search for pulses from the remnant of SN1987A (by Zhang et al.)

October 3, 2018

Zhang et al. have used the Parkes radio-telescope to observe the remnant of supernova SN 1987A (SNR 1987A), located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), to search for periodic and/or […]

Alan Shepard’s visit to Honeysuckle Creek

October 2, 2018

Last month marks the 50th anniversary of NASA astronaut Alan Shepard’s visit to the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. Honeysuckle Creek, south of Canberra, was part of the Manned Space Flight […]

CSIRO Space Industry Roadmap released

September 28, 2018

Earlier this week, CSIRO’s space industry roadmap was launched by the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews at the 18th Australian Space Research Conference on the Gold Coast. […]

PULSE@Parkes in New Zealand – by Rob Hollow

September 27, 2018

The CASS PULSE@Parkes team visited New Zealand recently to conduct our first school sessions there. The image above shows Dr Shi Dai guiding students from Rosehill College in Auckland in […]

ATNF Colloquium – Wide-band, High-resolution JVLA Observations of Cygnus A: Polarimetry and the value of Serendipity

September 26, 2018

by Rick Perley (NRAO) Abstract: Cygnus A is the archetypal high luminosity radio galaxy. It is one of the most powerful radio galaxies known, and, at z=0.056, is located extraordinarily […]

Bolton Fellow, Shi Dai

September 25, 2018

Shi Dai, who took up a post-doc position at CASS in December 2015 , has just joined Tessa Vernstrom as a new Bolton Fellow . The image above shows Shi […]

Welcome Tessa Vernstrom!

September 24, 2018

Tessa Vernstrom has joined CASS, based in Perth, as a Bolton Fellow . Tessa specialises in the statistical study of the faint and or distant extragalactic radio sky, from galaxies […]