ASKAP Update for April

April 18, 2024

The ASKAP Update for March includes reports on the status of survey operations, a new round of Guest Science Projects, the first RACS-high data release, GASKAP-HI parameter space exploration, and […]

ATNF Colloquium – Clouds over middle-earth: using ilifu to combine the MeerKAT and the EMU for ORCs

April 17, 2024

Jordon Collier (AusSRC/CIRA) Combining ASKAP’s EMU survey and MeerKAT enables complementary science; ASKAP’s large FoV enables the discovery of new/rare types of objects, like Odd Radio Circles (ORCs), while MeerKAT’s […]

A multiband look at ultraluminous X-ray sources in NGC 7424 – by Soria et al.

April 16, 2024

Soria et al. have presented the results of a multi-band study of the nearby “grand-design”, face-on spiral galaxy NGC 7424 located a little over 10 Mpc from our Galaxy. Two […]

Parkes Pulsar Data Published in CSIRO’s Data Access Portal for 2023OCTS – by Lawrence Toomey

April 15, 2024

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 4 Petabytes from Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is […]

AT Users Committee Open Session

April 12, 2024

The Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) is a group of currently eleven scientists that represents the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ATUC meetings are a forum for ATNF […]

ATNF Colloquium – Stars that merge in the Milky Way

April 11, 2024

Albert Zijlstra (University of Manchester) Stellar explosions come in two main varieties. At the top end are the supernovae, visible to cosmological distances but which may be missed when occurring […]

Conversation article on the magnetar XTE J1810-197 – by Lower et al.

April 10, 2024

Magnetars are young neutron stars, with magnetic fields billions of times stronger than our most powerful Earth-based magnets. The slow decay of their magnetic fields creates an enormous amount of […]

William Wordsworth

April 9, 2024

The X (formerly twitter) feed of the CanberraDSN recently included the image above of the Canberra Deep Space Commiunication Complex’s 70m DSS-43 antenna together with William Wordsworth’s lines “I wandered […]

Total Solar Eclipses

April 8, 2024

The only total solar eclipse this year occurs today and is visible from part of North America. To mark this event, we reproduce (with permission) the image used in the […]

256 down, 130,816 to go!

April 5, 2024

The SKA-Low telescope design contains 512 stations, each of which is made up of 256 antennas, for a total of 131,072 antennas. The first SKA-Low antenna was installed early last […]

Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets – by Russell et al.

April 4, 2024

Russell et al. monitored the accreting neutron star 4U 1728-34 with a simultaneous radio and X-ray observing campaign. The radio observations, which probe the jet emission, were taken over a […]

Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets – by Russell et al.

April 3, 2024

Relativistic jets are observed from accreting systems throughout the Universe, and have a profound impact on their surroundings. Despite their importance, the jet launching mechanism is not known. For accreting […]