Gaming technology makes new telescopes flexible, cheap and fast

Sep 17, 2015

Computer gamers will be familiar with the technology of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs): they power the ultra-fast, ultra-realistic graphics for modern computer games. Out of this mass market for incredibly high performance rendering of graphics in gaming, GPUs have...

MWA and Parkes data confirm broadband nature of giant pulses

Sep 14, 2015

Crab pulsar is a relatively young pulsar situated in the central region of the Crab nebula. Its giant pulses are short duration radio bursts consisting of complex superpositions of nanosecond- and microsecond-scale bursts, occurring only at the main-pulse and the...

Solution to FRB conundrum also reveals clues about their origin

Sep 11, 2015

Since first reported in 2007, the origin of the bright, millisecond-duration pulses known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has remained a mystery to astronomers. There have been more theories proposed to explain them than the 17 events so far detected. Where do they come...

MWA survey opens new window into the low-frequency radio sky

Sep 9, 2015

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope has completed observations for a 2-year observing program to survey the entire radio sky accessible to the MWA. The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey was designed to meet the observational...