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 […]

ATNF Colloquium – Recent Science and Upcoming Changes for NRAO/US Radio Astronomy

May 6, 2016

by Tony Beasley (NRAO) Abstract. The outlook for radio astronomy in the US is complex at present. New instruments and upgrades are producing exciting science (several recent results will be […]

Monitoring the Galactic Centre with the ATCA

May 5, 2016

by Abhijeet Borkar (Universität Köln; Germany) The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity, which is thought to arise […]

Visiting the SkyMapper team

May 4, 2016

by Jing Wang (CASS) The Skymapper team are busy preparing for the early data release of a shallow imaging survey. The survey provides u, v, g, r, i and z […]

Vela pulsar timing over 21 years

May 3, 2016

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Shannon et al. (2016) present observations of the Vela pulsar over a period of 21 years during which time the pulsar has rotated nearly than 7.5 […]