ASKAP PAF installation

July 26, 2016

Chequerboard Phased-Array Feed (PAF) installation at the Australian SkA Pathfinder (ASKAP) thanks to our amazing team of engineers, technicians, and wonderful support staff. Wide-field 21-cm images from ASKAP-12 with all […]

The Galactic Centre revisited – IAUS322

July 25, 2016

Over 100 participants from 20 countries and six continents attended the IAU Symposium 322 on “The multi-messenger astrophysics of the Galactic Centre”. Talks and posters will be published in the […]

The Parkes Observatory’s Support of the Apollo 11 Mission

July 22, 2016

It was one giant leap for mankind, and it was taken at 12.56 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Monday 21 July 1969. Six hundred million people, or one […]

Star formation within the central few hundred parsecs of the Milky Way

July 21, 2016

by Ashley Barnes (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) The central few hundred parsecs of the Milky Way contains the majority of the Galaxy’s dense molecular gas. The conditions within this […]

ATNF Colloquium – High Efficiency Phased Array receivers for Radio Astronomy, Remote Sensing and Satellite Communciations

July 20, 2016

by Karl Warnick (Brigham Young University, USA) Abstract. Aperture phased arrays and phased array feeds (PAFs) are a promising technology for sensing and communications applications requiring electronic beamsteering and large […]

OH masers in the Galactic Centre region

July 19, 2016

by Haihua Qiao (ICRAR/Curtin University) This is the preliminary result of OH masers in the Galactic Centre region as obtained with CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The top panel […]

IAU Symposium 322 on the Galactic Centre

July 18, 2016

The IAU Symposium 322 on “Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre” starts today in rainy Cairns. The picture above is from Ott et al (2014) and shows the ATCA survey […]

Farewell to Flornes Yuen

July 15, 2016

Flo has been with us for six eventful years, from the deployment of the first ASKAP antenna, throughout the array construction, systems and science commissioning with the Boolardy Engineering Test […]

ASKAP Image Gallery

July 14, 2016

Photo by Pete Wheeler (UWA/ICRAR) An amazing collection of images from the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) and more is now available as […]

ATNF Colloquium – Deeper, Wider, Faster – Chasing the fastest transients in the Universe

July 13, 2016

by Jeff Cooke (Swinburne Uni) Abstract. Transient phenomena, such as supernovae and novae have been found that evolve over timescales of a few days to hundreds of days and span […]

The Central Molecular Zone traced by ammonia gas

July 12, 2016

by Nico Krieger (MPIA, Germany) The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG) uses ATNF’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to map the central region of the […]

ASKAP Phased-Array Feeds

July 11, 2016

by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) ASKAP dishes, some with Phased Array Feeds (PAFs), undergoing testing (photo from 21 Oct 2012). The first-generation PAFs (green chequerboard) and the Boolardy Engineering Telescope Array […]