ATNF Colloquium – Astronomy Australia Ltd: Update on current activities and future plans

April 20, 2016

by Yeshe Fenner (AAL) Abstract. Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL) is an independent not-for-profit company that has invested over $100M since 2007 to advance the vision that astronomers in Australia will […]

Australia – China collaboration

April 19, 2016

by Phil Crosby (CASS) After the tour of the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) was sadly cancelled due to poor weather , our visitors from the National Astronomical Observatories of China […]

Radio haloes in nearby edge-on galaxies observed with the ATCA

April 18, 2016

by Volker Heesen (University of Southampton, UK) Radio haloes in nearby edge-on galaxies show the presence of cosmic-ray electrons and magnetic fields in them. As an example for this, today’s […]

First ASKAP 36-beam image !

April 16, 2016

by the ASKAP team (CASS) This radio image of a region in the constellation of Apus was made with nine ASKAP antennas, each of which was equipped with a second-generation […]

Improving Measurements of PAFs at CSIRO

April 15, 2016

by Aaron Chippendale (CASS) This week, CSIRO’s development of new techniques to measure signal and noise in phased array feeds (PAFs) is being presented at the 10th European Conference on […]

ACAMAR collaboration meeting

April 14, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) Acamar is a bright star visible from both Australia and China. ACAMAR is also short for Australia-ChinA ConsortiuM for Astrophysical Research , and aims to enhance […]

ATNF Colloquium – Supermassive black holes at z = 0

April 13, 2016

by Giulia Savorgnan (Swinburne University) Abstract. Supermassive black holes in local galaxies obey a surprisingly large number of scaling laws that involve the black hole mass and various properties of […]

The evolution of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation

April 12, 2016

by Xu Kong (Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China) Abstract. The relationship between the metallicity (Z) and stellar mass (M) of galaxies is a key diagnostic […]

Dust storm near ASKAP

April 11, 2016

by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) Mother Nature surprised us last Saturday with a strong thunderstorm and a dust storm in the evening. According to our weather station, the wind peaked at […]

Tracing the neutral gas environments of young radio AGN with ASKAP

April 8, 2016

by James Allison (CASS) Wide-field HI absorption surveys with the Square Kilometre Array precursors will have the unique capability of finding atomic gas in the largely unexplored epoch between the […]

Phased-Array Feed on The Dish

April 7, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) A collaboration between CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) and the Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) has resulted in one of the Phased-Array Feeds (PAF) […]

ATNF Colloquium – Linking AGN and host galaxy formation

April 6, 2016

by Li Shao (CASS) It is in debate that whether a link between galaxy formation and central black hole growth exists, and if yes, how the link is established. With […]