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 […]

Friends of Technology and Innovation

April 2, 2024

Last week a delegation from the Western Australian Parliamentary Friends of Technology and Innovation visited Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. The group is open to all members of […]

Modeling the Radial Distribution of Pulsars in the Galaxy – by Xie et al.

March 28, 2024

The Parkes 20 cm multibeam pulsar surveys have discovered nearly half of the known pulsars and revealed many distant pulsars with high dispersion measures. Using a sample of 1301 pulsars […]

ATNF Colloquium – High-Redshift Ultraluminous Quasi-Stellar Objects

March 27, 2024

Samuel Lai (CSIRO) Abstract: Over the past century, black holes transitioned from theoretical constructs to ubiquitous entities in the Universe. Extensive evidence supports the notion that supermassive black holes, which […]

Fizzy and Suds visit Parkes

March 26, 2024

ABC tv in Australia has recently started airing a new pre-school factual series called “Cool Stuff with Fizzy & Suds”. Fizzy & Suds are two animated bubbles who love to […]

Interstellar Frontiers 2024

March 25, 2024

The Interstellar Frontiers 2024 conference was held recently in Perth and on-line, bringing together researchers interested in the search for extra-terrestrial life. The conference had a broad geopgraphical representation, with […]

SETI’s potential

March 22, 2024

The Interstellar Frontiers 2024 conference was held recently in Perth and on-line, bringing together researchers interested in the search for extra-terrestrial life. One of the participants was Ron Ekers, captured […]

ASKAP Update for March – by Aidan Hotan

March 21, 2024

The ASKAP Update for March reports on progress with survey science, the status of CASDA (the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive), testing of new imager features, and various options being […]

ATNF Colloquium – Near and Long-term Trends and Opportunities in US Radio Astronomy

March 20, 2024

Tony Beasley(NRAO) Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the ambitious scientific program underway in the United States over the next decade to explore the radio Universe, in concert with […]

SDHDF: A new file format for spectral-domain radio astronomy data – by Toomey et al.

March 19, 2024

Radio astronomy file formats are now required to store wide frequency bandwidths and multiple simultaneous receiver beams and must be able to account for versatile observing modes and numerous calibration […]