HI in Dwarf Galaxies Workshop, July 15-16, 2015
July 15, 2015
by Megan Johnson (CASS) ATNF is hosting a two day workshop called “HI in Dwarf Galaxies” in honor of distinguished visitor, Dr. Deidre Hunter, the PI of LITTLE THINGS (Hunter […]
Famous radio astronomers
July 14, 2015
Left picture: U.S. radio astronomer Martha Stahr Carpenter (Cornell University) with some of the instrumentation in the receiver hut of the 11m (36 ft) antenna at Potts Hill , during […]
ATNF Colloquium – Grote Reber Medal Lecture: Enabling Technologies for Modern Radio Astronomy
July 13, 2015
by Ron Ekers (CASS) Abstract. 80 years ago Grote Reber started on the path of technical innovation in radio astronomy, including the first use of a large parabolic dish . […]
First interferometry in Australia
July 12, 2015
This 32-element grating array was erected in 1951 along the south bank of the smaller reservoir at the Potts Hill field station. The array comprised 32 x 1.8-m solid metal […]
The restored Potts Hill Cottage
July 11, 2015
Potts Hill in Sydney was the site of 11 radio astronomy telescopes. Here is a picture taken on 9 July 2015 (by B. Koribalski) of the Potts Hill Cottage – […]
Radio Astronomy at Potts Hill
July 10, 2015
Potts Hill in Sydney was the site of 11 radio astronomy telescopes, including a synthesis telescope (32 x 1.8-m dishes operating at 1420 MHz) to observe the solar corona in […]
The traditional lands of the Wadjarri Yamatji
July 9, 2015
Photo by Megan Argo (Curtin University) Steven Tingay (left), pictured with Tedo Ryan (right) at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), beautifully writes about Indigenous culture and astrophysics: a path to […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Evolution of Massive Stars: Closing the Loop in the Galaxies of the Local Group
July 8, 2015
by Phil Massey (Lowell Observatory) Abstract. Massive stars are extremely rare: for every star with a mass 20 times that of the sun, there are over 100,000 solar-type stars in […]
The 21-cm Parkes multibeam receiver
July 7, 2015
Photo by the CASS receiver group The 21-cm multibeam receiver at the Parkes 64-m telescope was used to carry out the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) , the HI […]
Machining the methanol multibeam receiver
July 6, 2015
Photo by Graham Moorey (CASS) The methanol multibeam receiver at the Parkes 64-m telescope was used to carry out a 6.7 GHz maser survey of the Galactic Plane. The picture […]
Planet formation around HD100546
July 5, 2015
by Sarah Maddison (Swinburne University) Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) image of the protoplanetary disk around the young star HD100546. This young, massive star is about 100 pc from the […]
Kinematic Modelling of Warped Galaxy Discs
July 4, 2015
by Peter Kamphuis (CASS) Kinematical parameterisations of disc galaxies, employing emission line observations, are indispensable tools for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies. In Kamphuis et al. (2015) we […]
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