Black hole jets pack a powerful punch
High-speed ‘jets’ spat out by black holes pack a lot of power because they contain heavy atoms, astronomers have found. More information.
Pill-popping galaxy hooked on gas
Our Galaxy may have been swallowing “pills” — clouds of gas with a magnetic wrapper — to keep making stars for the past eight billion years. More information.
Lead role for CSIRO in SKA R&D
CSIRO will play a lead role in the next stage of the development of the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to be located in Australia and […]
CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive: Requirements and Use Cases: document release
Planning is underway for a core computing component of ASKAP – the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA). CASDA will store, manage and share science-ready ASKAP data products. A draft […]
CASS and industry develop specialised PAF casings for ASKAP
CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope is an internationally significant project using cutting-edge Australian technologies to demonstrate the innovative capacity of Australian science and industry. The ASKAP team has been working with local […]
Gravitational waves “know” how black holes grow
Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy’s got one. But how did they grow so big? A paper in today’s issue of the journal Science pits the front-running ideas about the […]
ASKAP spies spectral line for first time
ASKAP has made its first ever detection of a spectral line, using three ASKAP antennas at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The observation was performed remotely by […]
Feedback sought on ASKAP Early Science Program
Feedback is now being sought from the astronomy community on ASKAP Early Science, a program of observations designed to explore new scientific parameter-space with ASKAP before the construction of the […]
Astronomers find ‘missing link’ pulsar
An international team of astronomers has used X-ray telescopes in space and ground-based telescopes, including two of CSIRO’s, to identify a pulsar that switches between emitting X-rays and emitting radio […]
Position available: Bolton Fellowship in Wide-field radio astronomy
Applications are invited for the 2014 Bolton Fellowship in Wide-field radio astronomy. This is a prestigious three-year postdoctoral fellowship to be taken at CASS. Applications close 18 November 2014. Apply […]
ASKAP PAF system wins Engineering Excellence award
ASKAP’s innovative new receiver technology – the phased array feed (PAF) – has picked up the ‘Innovations and Inventions’ award at the Sydney branch Engineering Excellence Awards ceremony for Engineers […]
ASKAP gains Early Adopter access to supercomputer
Recently, the iVEC Pawsey Centre in Perth saw successful installation of its supercomputing facilities – which include partitions for multi-purpose research and real-time processing of radio astronomy data from major […]