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.

DSS36 – our new dish for space tracking

November 7, 2016

DSS-36 completes the Deep Space Network Aperture Enhancement Project launched by NASA several years to ensure the network could do all required space tracking. More information this CSIRO blog article […]

ASKAP core antennas with new PAFs

November 4, 2016

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is growing week by week as more Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) arrive on site for installation and testing on the antennas. We […]

Radio light curve of the galaxy possibly associated with FRB150418

November 3, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Johnston et al. present observations made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Giant Metre-Wave Telescope of the […]

ATNF Colloquium – The true shape of galaxies

November 2, 2016

by Caroline Foster (AAO) Abstract. The intrinsic or true three-dimensional shape of galaxies is one of their most fundamental characteristic. Yet, due to projection effects, the true shape of galaxies […]

ATCA detections of massive molecular gas reservoirs in dusty, high-z radio galaxies

November 1, 2016

by Ian Heywood (CASS) Today’s ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP) shows ATCA 7 mm spectra of two optically-faint, narrow-line radio galaxies with redshifts > 2 (left panels), corresponding to a […]

Baracchi Conference starts tomorrow

October 31, 2016

The first Italian-Australian Pietro Baracchi conference will get under way tomorrow in Perth, bringing together participants from around the world for talks and discussions.

GLEAM survey I: a low-frequency extragalactic catalog

October 28, 2016

by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin University) Published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the first catalogue from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey comprises […]

ATCA surrounded by purple fields

October 27, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) Unseasonably heavy recent rains at the Compact Array have resulted in a field of purple around the telescopes. This is evident in the foreground of the […]

ATNF Colloquium – Bruce Slee’s 70 years in radio astronomy

October 26, 2016

by Wayne Orchiston (NARIT) Abstract. Owen Bruce Slee, one of the pioneers of Australian radio astronomy, died on 18 August 2016, a week after his 92nd birthday. During WW II […]

The road to ASKAP

October 25, 2016

Photo by Cornelia Brem A beautiful photo of the outback’s contrasting colors on the road to the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP). – We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the […]

First γ-ray binary in the LMC

October 24, 2016

by Phil Edwards (CASS) Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), and other facilities, an international team of scientists has found the first […]