ATNF Colloquia – Supermassive Black Holes and Millisecond Pulsar Discoveries
February 25, 2015
by Steve Croft and David Kaplan (1) “Probing Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Next Generation Radio Telescopes” by Steve Croft (UC Berkeley / Eureka Scientific) : A new generation of […]
ATNF Colloquium – MWA & progress towards SKA_LOW
February 24, 2015
by Carole Jackson (ICRAR, Curtin University) Abstract. Work by the “Low-Frequency Aperture Array” (LFAA) R&D Consortium for the future SKA telescope is concentrated on the set of antennas, on board […]
Real-time discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB)
February 23, 2015
by Ryan Shannon (CASS) & Vikram Ravi (University of Melbourne) Ravi, Shannon and Jameson (2015) report the real-time discovery, in 2013, of a fast radio burst (FRB 131104) with the […]
MALT-45: A 7 mm survey of the southern Galaxy
February 22, 2015
by Christopher Jordan (University of Tasmania) MALT-45 is a Galactic plane survey for star formation, which uses the Australia Telescope Compact Array in a unique way. One significant result from […]
Celebrating the life of Jim Caswell
February 21, 2015
Tribute by Simon Ellingsen (University of Tasmania) Simon writes: “In the early 1990s, when I was a PhD student, I was lucky enough to be involved in the first Parkes […]
Celebrating the life of Jim Caswell
February 20, 2015
Tribute by Shari Breen (CASS) Shari writes “This picture, featuring Maxim, Lyshia, me and Jim, was taken back in 2009 during one of our many observing trips to Parkes for […]
Celebrating the life of Jim Caswell
February 19, 2015
Tribute by Tim Bedding (School of Physics, University of Sydney) Tim writes “Everyone remembers their first paper. Mine was Caswell, Kesteven, Bedding & Turtle (1989) . Jim was kind enough […]
The first new 6.7 GHz methanol maser detected in the MMB survey
February 18, 2015
A tribute to Jim Caswell by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) Maxim writes “As a maser person, I obviously knew Jim’s papers well before I met him for the first time in […]
ATNF Colloquium – New Views of Planet-Forming Disks with Millimeter Interferometry
February 17, 2015
by David Wilner (CfA) Abstract. – The circumstellar disks that naturally arise from the star formation process are the sites where planets are made. Many hundreds of these analogs to […]
Celebrating the life of Jim Caswell
February 16, 2015
Tribute by Jimi Green (SKA Office, U.K.) Jimi writes “My first observing run, the installation and commissioning of the 7-beam receiver on the Parkes telescope as part of the Methanol […]
Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish
February 15, 2015
by John Sarkissian (CASS) This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO’s Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on […]
Single pulses from PSR J1107-5907
February 14, 2015
by Charlotte Ward (University of Sydney) This image shows the variable behaviour of the nulling pulsar PSR J1107-5907. This search mode data, obtained from Parkes last year, shows the shape […]
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.