The Timing of Pulsars in M62 – by Vleeschower et al.

May 7, 2024

Globular Clusters (GCs) are considered prime locations for discovering millisecond pulsars (MSPs) due to their ultra-dense cores, which promote the formation of binary systems containing neutron stars. Within these systems, […]

Australia Telescope Steering Committee visit to Parkes

May 6, 2024

The Australia Telescope Steering Committee (ATSC) provides advice to the ATNF Director on the scientific and technical operations of the ATNF. Committee members are appointed by the CSIRO Board. The […]

Crepuscular rays at CDSCC

May 3, 2024

When the Sun’s rays burst through clouds, often seen at sunrise or sunset, they appear to diverge from a point source just behind the clouds, however, this is an illusion […]

SKA Science Data Challenge 3

May 2, 2024

The latest issue of the SKA Observatory’s magazine Contact includes an article on the third SKA Science Data Challenge. With 234 registered participants spread across 33 teams and 16 countries, […]

April issue of Contact

May 1, 2024

The latest issue of the SKA Observatory’s magazine Contact has just been published. This issue contains stories about the first SKA-Mid dish’s epic journey, the field technicians tasked with building […]

Star formation in the Nessie Nebula – by Jackson et al.

April 30, 2024

Jackson et al. have combined data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) with ATCA and Mopra data to study a bright photodissociation region (PDR) associated with an ionized […]

Multi-epoch sampling of the radio star population with ASKAP – by Pritchard et al.

April 29, 2024

The population of radio-loud stars has to date been studied primarily through either targeted observations of a small number of highly active stars or widefield, single-epoch surveys that cannot easily […]

Welcome Adriana Parra

April 26, 2024

Adriana Parra recently joined Space and Astronomy as a CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Fellow. Adirana is from Colombia, where she completed my undergrad studies and a master’s degree in […]

ATNF Colloquium – Design and programming of heterogeneous and high-performance computing systems in astronomy

April 24, 2024

Ophelie Renaud (INSA-IETR, France) In this presentation, I address the difficult problem inherent in SKA of deploying complex astronomical applications under development on efficient target architectures that have not yet […]

A study of 10 Rotating Radio Transients using Murriyang, the Parkes radio telescope – by Ren et al.

April 23, 2024

Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a subclass of pulsars that emit detectable radio bursts only sporadically. Ren et al. conducted an analysis of 10 RRATs observed using Murriyang, the Parkes […]

Linear to circular conversion in the polarized radio emission of a magnetar – by Lower et al.

April 22, 2024

Magnetars are a class of slowly rotating neutron star with extremely high surface magnetic field strengths. Most magnetars are exclusively detected at X-ray and gamma-ray wavelengths. To date, only six […]

BIGCAT testing at the ATCA

April 19, 2024

BIGCAT is the Broadband Integrated GPU Correlator for ATca, a LIEF (Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities) funded replacement of the existing CABB digitisers and correlator with a […]