Deep Radio and X-Ray observations of Pictor A

November 3, 2015

by Emil Lenc (CAASTRO, SIfA, University of Sydney) A study of deep observations of Pictor A in radio with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and in X-rays with the […]

ASKAP team members proud of their CSIRO medal

November 2, 2015

It takes a large team to carry out a big project like ASKAP. The above photos show just a few of the many engineers and scientists receiving the CSIRO 2015 […]

CSIRO animation: how PAFs help us look back in time

November 1, 2015

ASKAP’s Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) are a marvel of engineering, recognised by numerous awards, most recently by the CSIRO 2015 Chairman’s medal . Using PAFs on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP; […]

Kangaroos in front of the visitors centre at the ATCA

October 31, 2015

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) Jamie Stevens, Robin Wark, Shari Breen and Karen Lee-Waddell recently revised the ATCA Users Guide, while on-site at the array in Narrabri. A new version of […]

Welcome to Juan Madrid 🙂

October 30, 2015

Juan Madrid comes from Gemini where he was a Science Fellow. The picture above is of Juan in front of Gemini South in Cerro Pachon, Chile. This telescope is located […]

ASKAP team wins CSIRO’s highest honour

October 29, 2015

Congratulations to the amazing ASKAP team – a few of whom are shown in the image above (with PAF-equipped ASKAP antennas in the background) – who won the 2015 Chairman’s […]

ATNF Colloquium – The Void Galaxy Survey – exploring the loneliest galaxies in the Universe

October 28, 2015

by Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute) The “Cosmic Web” harbours a range of structures and densities: at one extreme one finds galaxy clusters, the most massive, virialized dense conglomerates […]

Powerful radio galaxy PKS 2356-61

October 27, 2015

This is a combined radio/optical image of the powerful radio galaxy PKS 2356-61 featured on our outreach pages. The radio emission – measure with the Australia Telecope Compact Array (ATCA) […]

Gas dynamics in tidal dwarf galaxies: disc formation at z=0

October 26, 2015

by Federico Lelli (CWRU) Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are recycled objects that form within the collisional debris around interacting/merging galaxies. Lelli et al. (2015) investigate the gas dynamics in a […]

The 25th Annual ADASS Conference

October 25, 2015

The annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held in Sydney this week, starting today. It provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software […]

Last of the wildflowers in bloom in the Mid West

October 24, 2015

by Mark Leach (CASS) This photo, taken earlier in October, shows the last of the flowers blooming on the roadside near ASKAP Antenna 22 at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. These […]

The giant radio galaxy J0116-473

October 23, 2015

This beautiful ATCA 20-cm image is featured on our outreach pages with the following description: “Giant plumes of radio emitting synchrotron plasma created by beams from a black hole at […]