Optical and radio astrometry of the galaxy associated with FRB150418

August 2, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) A fading radio source, coincident in time and position with the fast radio burst FRB 150418, has been associated with the galaxy WISE J071634.59-190039.2. Subsequent observations […]

Time Assignment Committee at work

August 1, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) The ATNF Time Assignment Committee (TAC) met in Marsfield last week to review proposals for Parkes, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Tidbinbilla, and the Long Baseline […]

A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star

July 29, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet […]

Detecting Pulsars with Interstellar Scintillation in Variance Images

July 28, 2016

by Shi Dai (CASS) Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both […]

ATNF Colloquium – Here be Spiral DRAGNs

July 27, 2016

by Minnie Mao (Manchester University) Abstract. In the local Universe, large-scale double-lobed radio sources are almost always hosted by elliptical galaxies. This is consistent with leading galaxy formation models that […]

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 […]