Rocket science at The Dish

May 24, 2016

by Wasim Raja (CASS) The team went to visit the CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes Radio Telescope (or simply “The Dish”) for testing and characterising a prototype Mark III Phased-Array Feed (PAF) […]

First Pietro Baracchi Conference

May 23, 2016

by George Heald (CASS) CASS is co-organising “The First Pietro Baracchi Conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA”. This conference is designed to bring together Italian and […]

View from The Dish

May 20, 2016

by John Tuthill (CASS) Daniel, Mia and John took these photos from the Parkes Dish while on an amazing tour of the instrument which was very generously provided by Parkes […]

New ATCA webpages

May 19, 2016

by Jamie Stevens (CASS) For an inexperienced observer, it can be a challenge to find relevant and up-to-date information about how the ATCA works. Thankfully, our experienced users are very […]

ATNF Colloquium – Pulsar Timing Arrays – (a tool for serious physics)

May 18, 2016

by Bill Coles (University of California San Diego) Abstract. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to search for evidence of gravitational waves from super massive black hole binaries. The sensitivity […]

Young Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Nearby Groups

May 17, 2016

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) Lee-Waddell et al. (2016) has recently been accepted for publication in MNRAS. This paper is the culmination of a multi-wavelength unbiased survey of the gas-rich dwarf […]

ASKAP Panorama

May 16, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) This beautiful panorama shows about half of the 36 ASKAP antennas at the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory. The photo was taken on the 16th of March 2016 […]

Last year’s ASKAP visit

May 13, 2016

Photo by Connie Brem The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) consists of 36 x 12-m dishes. Twelve of these are now equipped with second-generation Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs), which provide […]

ASKAP construction

May 12, 2016

by Mark Leach (CASS) Images from the ASKAP construction during 2010 and 2011, incl. some site infrastructure, the first BETA Phased-Array Feed on the ground, splicing, trenching (hot and dusty […]

ATNF Colloquium – Jets, outflows and radio galaxies at low-frequencies

May 11, 2016

by Elizabeth Mahoney (Sydney Uni) Abstract. In this seminar I will present work I’ve done over the last few years during my previous postdoc position at ASTRON in the Netherlands. […]

The remarkably tight HI size-mass relation of galaxies

May 10, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) This paper ( Wang et al. 2016 ) is recently accepted for publication at MNRAS. It builds a beautiful sample of HI interferometry data for over […]

ATCA movie from Dawn to Dusk

May 9, 2016

by Leslie Eastman (Monash University) Leslie Eastman’s diverse art practice uses painting, drawing, video, installation and sound to explore the nature of human perception. His work examines the encounter between […]