Launch of NovaSAR satellite

September 21, 2018

Last Monday morning the NovaSAR-1 satellite was delivered into orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India by Antrix Corporation – the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research […]

Welcome Xiang Zhang!

September 20, 2018

We welcome Xiang Zhang to CASS as a CSIRO ResearchPlus postdoc in ATNF Science. Dr Zhang has just finished a joint PhD program between Curtin University and Purple Mountain Observatory […]

ATNF Colloquium – Dark Gas in the Milky Way

September 19, 2018

by Di Li (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Abstract: HI and CO emission have been the standard tracer of the total gas content in the ISM. Caveats, though, exist for […]

ASKAP composite feed leg trials

September 18, 2018

Commissioning of the ASKAP antennas has revealed that the system temperatures of the Phased Array Feeds (PAFs) are not quite as low as had been expected. Two possible contributing factors […]

ATCA, from the CSIRO image library

September 17, 2018

Earlier this month the Australia Telescope Compact Array celebrated the 30th anniversary of its official opening . The image above of the ATCA , from CSIRO’s Scienceimage library, dates from […]

Dick Manchester honoured by Australian Academy of Science

September 14, 2018

The Australian Academy of Science yesterday announced that Dr Richard (Dick) Manchester FAA has been awarded one of Australia’s highest honours for work in the physical sciences, the Academy’s Matthew […]

Parkes at night, from the CSIRO image library

September 13, 2018

Scienceimage is an image library, presented by CSIRO, specialising in science and nature images. The image above of the Parkes 64m telescope , taken in December 1989, is one of […]

ATNF Colloquium – New views of the distant Universe with wide-field radio telescopes

September 12, 2018

by Elaine Sadler (CASS/USyd) Abstract: Radio telescopes are highly efficient machines for probing the distant universe and measuring the cosmic evolution of galaxies and their central black holes. In this […]

Long Baseline Array observing

September 11, 2018

The last few days have seen the ATNF telescopes combining with those of partner institutions to undertake observations using the technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The Parkes 64m […]

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins Special Breakthrough Prize

September 10, 2018

It was announced last week that a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics had been awarded to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in recognition of her discovery of pulsars and her […]

An intermediate mass black hole candidate? – by Ravi et al.

September 7, 2018

Ravi et al. have investigated the claim that the high-velocity compact molecular cloud CO-0.40-0.22 contains an intermediate mass black hole. They present a collation of radio and infrared data, with […]

ATCA@30

September 6, 2018

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Australia Telescope Compact Array , an event seemingly foreseen by this sign along the east-west rail-track!