Tracking Orion

November 25, 2022

NASA’s Artemis 1 was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center last week with the main objective of testing the Orion spacecraft, especially its heat shield, in preparation for subsequent Artemis […]

WALLABY Pilot Survey Data Release

November 24, 2022

The first data release of WALLABY ASKAP Pilot Survey data was made last week. WALLABY (the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY) observed fields covering 180 square degrees of […]

ATNF Colloquium – High-redshift Supermassive Black Holes grow in dusty, gas-rich environment

November 23, 2022

Quirino D’Amato (SISSA, Italy) Abstract: A large fraction of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at galaxy centres grow hidden by dust and gas. In the […]

WALLABY Pilot Survey Data Release

November 22, 2022

The first data release of WALLABY ASKAP Pilot Survey data was made last week. WALLABY (the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY) observed fields covering 180 square degrees of […]

Superstars of STEM

November 21, 2022

Congratulations to Laura Driessen and Vanessa Moss on being selected for the Superstars of STEM program! Superstars of STEM is a initiative to break down gender assumptions about who can […]

ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT and VLA Polarimetric Calibration — Establishing the true EVPAs of 3C286 and 3C138

November 18, 2022

Rick Perley (NRAO) Abstract: The radio quasars 3C286 and 3C138 have long been used to determine the EVPAs of polarimetric imaging with the VLA. Since at least the 1960s, it […]

Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara — sharing the sky and stars

November 17, 2022

As previous ADAPs have reported, the new dual name for the SKA-Low telescope site is Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. But how do you pronouce the Wajarri […]

ASKAP Update for November

November 16, 2022

This month’s ASKAP update is devoted to the impending start of ASKAP’s first full survey trial, scheduled for tomorrow. Topics covered include testing of Setonix, Pawsey’s new supercomputer, the goals […]

Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara — sharing the sky and stars

November 15, 2022

No celebration is complete without cake, and the event on-Country at the Murchison Settlement to commemorate the signing of the Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) was no exception! During the […]

US Ambassador visits Marsfield

November 14, 2022

US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy (left) and CSIRO Chief Executive Larry Marshall (right) visited the Marsfield site last week and our engineers showed a prototype of the “rocket” Phased Array Feed, […]

Flux density evolution of a supernova remnant – by Bietenholz et al.

November 11, 2022

Supernova (SN) 1996cr, in the nearby Circinus Galaxy had the highest radio flux density ever observed for opticallyidentified radio supernova (163 mJy at 8.3 GHz; Bauer 2007b; Bauer et al. […]

LBA observations of a supernova remnant – by Bietenholz et al.

November 10, 2022

Bietenholz et al. present broadband radio flux-density measurements of the supernova (SN) 1996cr, made with MeerKAT, ATCA and ALMA, and images made from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations with […]