Parkes tracking Voyager 2
December 14, 2018
As noted in yesterday’s ADAP, NASA announced earlier this week that Voyager 2 has left the solar system and entered interstellar space, only the second spacecraft, after Voyager 1, to […]
Voyager 2 leaves the solar system
December 13, 2018
NASA announced at the American Geophysical Union meeting this week that the Voyager 2, launched in 1977, has left the solar system and entered interstellar space. Voyager 2 is about […]
ATNF Colloquium – Searching for helical magnetic fields in the Milky Way Galaxy
December 12, 2018
by Jennifer West (Dunlap Institute) Abstract: The origin and 3D structure of magnetic fields on galactic scales is an unsolved mystery. Leading theoretical models of large-scale galactic magnetic fields come […]
CASS Vacation Students at Kensington
December 11, 2018
The annual CASS Vacation Student program is underway, with students hosted at Kensington, Marsfield and Tidbinbilla this year. As illustrated above, the Kensington students met the challenge of dressing up […]
Gravitational Waves from black hole mergers
December 10, 2018
Last week the OzGrav Centre of Excellence held their Annual Retreat, which was preceded by the annoucement from the LIGO and Virgo consortia of the detection of four black hole […]
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey – by Shimwell et al.
December 7, 2018
A large international team, including current and former CASS staff, has issued the first data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). LoTSS is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz […]
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey – by Shimwell et al.
December 6, 2018
A large international team, including current and former CASS staff, has issued the first data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). LoTSS is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz […]
ATNF Colloquium – Towards detection of radio signatures of cosmic dawn
December 5, 2018
by Ravi Subrahmanyan (Raman Research Institute) Abstract: As first light from the first stars transforms the universe from the dark ages into cosmic dawn, the history may be traced in […]
ASKAP under the Milky Way
December 4, 2018
Thirty years ago, the Australian band The Church released their single “Under the Milky Way”, which went on to be one of their most popular songs. Today’s image, taken 30 […]
A polarisation study of Cen A
December 3, 2018
ASKAP observations of linear polarisation in the southern lobe of Centaurus A have revealed extraordinarily detailed structure, showing that ASKAP will be a powerful instrument for widefield polarisation studies. It’s […]
A wide field map of intracluster globular clusters in Coma – by Juan Madrid
November 30, 2018
The image above shows the surface density of globular clusters in the central regions of the Coma cluster. This heat map defines three main overdensities of globular clusters in Coma. […]
The Australia Telescope Users Committee
November 29, 2018
Last week the Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) met at Marsfield. ATUC is a group of ten scientists who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility. This committee […]
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