Congratulations to Amanda Bauer (@astropixie) !!

March 8, 2015

The “Top 5 Under 40” project (by Radio National and the University of NSW), which set out to find Australia’s most passionate science communicators among almost 250 applicants, just announced […]

Radio properties of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate

March 7, 2015

by David Cseh (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) HLX-1 is the best candidate intermediate-mass black hole among its peers (Farrell et al. 2009). HLX-1 is the brightest hyperluminous X-ray source […]

The first “water fountain” in a planetary nebula

March 6, 2015

by José-Francisco Gómez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain) Gómez et al. (2015) have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to map the water maser emission in […]

Searching for high-energy particles hitting the moon

March 5, 2015

by Justin Bray (University of Manchester, U.K.) High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, when they hit the moon, should produce a pulse of radio waves that can be detected from earth. […]

ATNF Colloquium – Spatial RFI Mitigation & Radio Astronomy

March 4, 2015

by Greg Hellbourg (CASS) Abstract. Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a serious and challenging issue for radio astronomy due to increasing spectrum occupancy. Current approaches for mitigating interference contributions to astronomical […]

2015 ATNF Observing Schedules

March 3, 2015

The ATNF observing schedules for the 2015 April semester are now available on-line. All ATNF observations are carried out by the observers from the Science Operations Center (SOC), located at […]

February 2015 – ADAP Collage

March 2, 2015

by B&aumlrbel Koribalski (CASS) Thank you so much to all the wonderful contributions to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP). Here are links to the collage for each previous month: […]

Wildlife at the ATCA

March 1, 2015

by Andreas Herzog (Bochum University, Germany) Not only kangaroos, goannas, and spiders are attracted by the impressive Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). This picture, taken in the early evening on […]

Help us find more spiral DRAGNs

February 28, 2015

by Minnie Mao (NRAO) In the local Universe, large-scale double-lobed radio sources are almost always hosted by elliptical galaxies. This is consistent with leading galaxy formation models that suggest both […]

ASKAP Highlights – Mk II Phased-Array Feed Performance

February 27, 2015

by Aaron Chippendale (CASS) On-dish measurements from CSIRO’s Mk II phased-array feed (PAF) have confirmed low-noise performance across the ASKAP frequency band. Sensitivity is significantly improved over the majority of […]

ASKAP Highlights – Mk II Phased-Array Feed

February 26, 2015

by Aaron Chippendale (CASS) This is the first Mk II phased-array feed (PAF), which was installed on ASKAP antenna 29 in September 2014. The Mk II PAF has significantly improved […]

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 […]