ATNF Colloquium – KM3NeT’s ARCA detector: neutrino astronomy in the Mediterranean

November 23, 2016

by Clancy James ((Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics) Abstract. KM3NeT is a neutrino detector currently in Phase 1 of construction at two sites in the Mediterranean Sea. Consisting of arrays […]

Annual Bolton and Student Symposium

November 22, 2016

by Craig Anderson (CASS) John Gatenby Bolton FRS (5 June 1922 – 6 July 1993) was a British-Australian astronomer. He was a pioneer in the area of radio astronomy, and […]

Separation of ICM components in the high-redshift cluster MACS J0025.4-1222

November 21, 2016

by Chris Riseley (CASS) The image shows the separation of bulk components in the intracluster medium (ICM) of the merging cluster system, MACS J0025.4-1222. The background image is from the […]

Bright Radio Bursts Probe Universe’s Hidden Matter

November 18, 2016

A paper led by Vikram Ravi, published in Science today , entitled “The magnetic field and turbulence of the cosmic web measured using a brilliant fast radio burst” discusses FRB […]

3D Visualisation of galaxy data

November 17, 2016

by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) 3D Visualisation of gas and stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 5204 made using Splotch. The HI data were provided by Gyula Jozsa; optical images are […]

3D Visualisation workshop

November 16, 2016

The 3D Visualisation workshop starts today, running over three days at the CSIRO Marsfield site. The workshop brings together a diverse range of researchers (astronomy, bio-medicine, energy, nano-technologies, …), as […]

Parkes telescope receivers

November 15, 2016

The 64-m Parkes telescope will soon be equipped with a brand-new ultra-wide band receiver covering a frequency range of 0.7 – 4.0 GHz (middle, right). And, after commissioning the Phased-Array […]

Australia Telescope User Committee meeting

November 14, 2016

The Australia Telescope User Committee (ATUC) consists of a diverse range of members from Australian Universities and other astronomy institutions, who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility […]

Flowers near ASKAP

November 11, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is growing week by week; 24 Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) are now on site. Installation and testing is on-going, with 30 PAFs […]

Pietro Baracchi Conference Photo

November 10, 2016

The first Pietro Baracchi conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA concluded successfully in Pert last week. Sponsorship for this meeting was generously provided by the Embassy […]

ATNF Colloquium – The evolution of the angular momentum of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations

November 9, 2016

by Claudia Lagos (ICRAR/UWA) Abstract. We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to study the specific angular momentum of galaxies, j, in the redshift range 0 < z < […]

Science for the SKA generation

November 8, 2016

The 2016 SKA science conference is under way in Goa, India, this week. CASS staff attending are George Heald, Craig Anderson, James Allison, and Josh Marvil.