Season’s Greetings
December 18, 2023
Season’s Greetings to all ADAP readers! The image above is topographic projection using the Extended Reality Interface in CSIRO’s lunar testing facilities at Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Brisbane.
Season’s Greetings
December 15, 2023
An ADAP earlier this year showed the SKA’s Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) 3 taking shape at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. The log-periodic SKALA antennas are […]
ATNf Annual Report 2022/23
December 14, 2023
The 2022/2023 ATNF Annual Report is now available on-line . The document covers the ATNF’s Key Performance Indicators, highlights for each of the ATNF telescopes and programs, and listings of […]
ATNF Colloquium – History of Radio Astronomy: celebrating 90 years of innovation and discovery
December 13, 2023
Ron Ekers (CSIRO) Abstract: It was 90 years ago when Karl Jansky announced his discovery of radio noise from the Milky Way Galaxy at the April 1933 meeting of URSI […]
Parkes confirmation of an ASKAP pulsar candidate – by Wang et al.
December 12, 2023
Wang et al. have reported the discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar in a search for highly circularly polarized radio sources as part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array […]
Near Earth Asteroid radar observations
December 11, 2023
A recent ADAP described bistatic radar observations of an asteroid during its close approach to Earth. These were made by transmitting a tone at 7.1 GHz from an antenna at […]
RACS-Mid catalog – by Duchesne et al.
December 8, 2023
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The RACS-mid survey was published by Duchesne et al. […]
RACS-Mid catalog – by Duchesne et al.
December 7, 2023
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The RACS-mid survey was published by Duchesne et al. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Examining the validity of the Rotating Vector Model in Pulsars
December 6, 2023
Dipanjan Mitra (NCRA, TIFR) Abstract: More than Fifty years have passed since the discovery of pulsars, yet the physical mechanism of their coherent radio emission is unclear. The linear polarization […]
CRAFT busy week
December 5, 2023
CRAFT (The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients survey) is an ASKAP Survey Science Project for transient sources with timescales shorter than 5 seconds. Its aim is to take advantage of […]
CSIRO Awards
December 4, 2023
CSIRO recognises the efforts of its staff at an annual Ceremony, with awards presented in a number of categories. Among them, the Medal for Support Excellence recognises teams or individuals […]
November issue of Contact
December 1, 2023
The November issue of Contact, the SKAO’s magazine, is now out. Articles include updates on SKA-Low and SKA-Mid construction activities, the recent visit of the SKAO Council to Australia, and […]
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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.