CryoPAF testing at Parkes

October 24, 2022

For over two decades, the flagship receiver on the Parkes 64m radiotelescope, Murriyang, was the 13-beam multi-beam receiver which enabled observations in the 20-cm wavelength band. Over its lifetime it […]

ASKAP’s view of an exceptionally bright Gamma-ray burst – by Emil Lenc (CSIRO), James Leung (USyd), and Tara Murphy (USyd)

October 21, 2022

An exceptionally bright Gamma-ray Burst ( GRB 221009A ) was caught by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (left image in animation). While Fermi can see a particularly large field of […]

ASKAP Update for October – by Aidan Hotan

October 20, 2022

This month’s ASKAP update discusses planning and development for the full survey trial in November, and progress on Pilot Surveys Phase II. Preparation for the full survey trial includes workflow […]

ATNF Colloquium – ASKAP WALLABY : dwarf galaxies in the Local Universe

October 19, 2022

Bi-Qing For (UWA) Abstract: Low-mass, or dwarf, galaxies are the primary source of ionising photons during the epoch of reionisation and they are the building blocks of galaxies in the […]

Parkes Pulsar Data Published in CSIRO’s Data Access Portal for 2021APRS – by Lawrence Toomey (S&A)

October 18, 2022

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 3 Petabytes from the Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is VO compatible […]

Delayed launch of an outflow following a Tidal Disruption Event – by Cendes et al.

October 17, 2022

In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth. […]

SKA-Low Aperture Array Verification Systems

October 14, 2022

Work on the Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) in Australia and Italy has focussed on the deployment, simulation, measurement, calibration and commissioning of prototype low-frequency stations. AAVS0.5, deployed circa 2014, […]

The eccentric millisecond pulsar PSR J0955−6150 – by Serylak et al.

October 13, 2022

PSR J0955−6150 was discovered several years ago in a Parkes survey of unidentified Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources. The pulsar has a spin period of 1.99 ms, and is believed to be […]

ATNF Colloquium – A Bayesian Study of the spin-up process of millisecond pulsars

October 12, 2022

Xiaojin Liu (Beijing Normal University, China) Abstract: Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are one of the fastest-spinning objects in the Universe. They are usually believed to attain their fast spin via an […]

SKA Low antennas

October 11, 2022

The SKA-Low telescope will be built at located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. In preparation, several Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) testbeds have been constructed on-site to […]

10th Anniversary of ASKAP Opening Ceremony

October 10, 2022

Last week marked the 10th Anniversary of the Official Opening of the ASKAP telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. In addition to activities on site, events were held at other […]

10th Anniversary of ASKAP Opening Ceremony

October 7, 2022

Wednesday October 5th marked the 10th Anniversary of the Official Opening of the ASKAP telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. After welcomes and introductions, addresses were given by Megan Clark […]