Mar 12, 2014
The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) was completed over a decade ago and still represents the most comprehensive census of the atomic hydrogen (HI) content of our local Universe. The 21-cm signal of hydrogen can be picked up by radio telescopes with relative ease...
Feb 10, 2014
In a new publication, a team of astronomers from Curtin University, with CAASTRO co-authors Dr Emil Lenc (University of Sydney) and Prof Steven Tingay (Curtin University), have used radio observations spanning 21 years to uncover the processes driving intense star...
Jan 31, 2014
When the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia looks up at the sky, it sees thousands of distant galaxies that emit radio waves with tremendous intensity. Most of these objects appear as unresolved points in the radio maps produced; however, some are...
Jan 31, 2014
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are by far the most luminous events in the cosmos we are aware of. These stellar explosions emit the amount of energy the whole Milky Way galaxy releases in ten years, and they do so in a few tens of a second. To the question which engine is...
Jan 24, 2014
n a recent paper by CAASTRO researchers André Offringa (ANU) and Martin Bell (University of Sydney), together with international colleagues, the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in The Netherlands was used to analyse what kind of effect terrestrial...
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