ASKAP – what’s happening this week ?
May 13, 2015
by the ASKAP team (CASS) Here a photo of three of the 36 ASKAP antennas from last week. We can see cabling work underway on Antenna 2 in preparation for […]
The Faintest Dying Radio Galaxy
May 12, 2015
by Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University) In this paper we report the discovery of the lowest surface brightness radio galaxy yet detected, associated with the lenticular galaxy NGC 1534. This represents […]
ATNF Science Day – 1 June 2015
May 11, 2015
The Australia Telescope User Committee (ATUC) meets regularly to (a) hear about recent ATNF developments and (b) discuss the future ATNF science priorities. All users of the Australia Telescope National […]
Excited-state hydroxyl maser polarimetry: Who ate all the Pis?
May 10, 2015
by Jimi Green (SKA Telescope) We observed 30 fields of excited-state hydroxyl (OH) masers in full Stokes polarization with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), detecting 70 sites of maser […]
GASS III, Parkes Galactic All Sky Survey, new data release
May 9, 2015
by Peter Kalberla & Urmas Haud A new version of the Parkes Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS) is available at arXiv:1505.01011 (Kalberla & Haud 2015). Major improvements are based on […]
Untangling an extremely warped dwarf galaxy
May 8, 2015
by Peter Kamphuis (CASS) Warps in neutral hydrogen (HI) disks are common in spiral galaxies. So common that it is thought that whenever an HI disk extends beyond the optical […]
Dwarf galaxy velocity fields
May 7, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) The 21-cm spectral line of hydrogen (HI) traces the cold atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies, which typically extends well beyond their stellar disks. The HI velocity […]
ATNF Colloquium – How to model the Universe in N easy steps (N>>1)
May 6, 2015
by Darren Croton (Swinburne University) Abstract. Much progress has been made in recent years in our understanding of the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, and their connection to […]
Molecular and atomic gas in dust lane early-type galaxies
May 5, 2015
by James Allison (CASS) We used the IRAM 30m and Arecibo 300m telescopes to measure the amount of molecular and atomic gas, respectively, in a sample of large galaxies that […]
May the fourth be with you!
May 4, 2015
by James Allison (CASS) Happy Star Wars Day from the forest moon of Parkes. For a description of the original Parkes image composition see the 5th of March ADAP .
Happy Birthday, Simon !
May 3, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) One of the best pulsar conferences was held in Krabi, Thailand, with about 100 participants from around the world: “Pulsar searching and Thai-ming” . – Can […]
Kangaroos at the ATCA
May 2, 2015
by Amy Kimball (CASS) The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) with local kangaroos in the foreground. (January 2014)
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.