Research News Stories 2015

Simulated galaxy clusters show complexity of identifying centre

Variability of radio sources due to black hole activity

CAASTRO-LSSTC-AAO Collaboration

Ex-CAASTRO student wins 2015 Canon Extreme Imaging competition

Simulations first to reveal fundamental plane of star formation

Large scale galaxy motions match expectations for dark matter

SAMI hexabundles probe biases in local star formation rates

Ionospheric effects not detrimental to EoR detection from ground

Weighing galaxies to find a more Fundamental Plane

Time-travel back to the first stars! Free talk, 29 October

Interplanetary scintillation found to contaminate the EoR signal

Classifying serendipitous X-ray sources with Machine Learning

Lessons about the ionosphere from the MWA Transients Survey

Novel trick draws fundamental scaling relation to high redshifts

CAASTRO student wins RSV Young Scientist Research Prize

CAASTRO science is ‘making a difference offshore’

Gaming technology makes new telescopes flexible, cheap and fast

MWA and Parkes data confirm broadband nature of giant pulses

Solution to FRB conundrum also reveals clues about their origin

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

First year of Australia hunting for Black Holes and Dark Energy

Escaping photons affect galaxy formation but supernovae dominant

Pilot study data prepare astronomers for future blind HI surveys

Cosmic magnetic fields in ancient galaxies surprisingly strong

Impact of IGM temperature fluctuations on large-scale clustering

New trick uses velocity maps to measure weak lensing directly

Dark matter halo of dwarf galaxies shaped by supernova feedback

Infant mortality in space

Slow rotating galaxies join clusters late and migrate to centre

Absence of fast radio bursts at intermediate Galactic latitude

SAMI observes shifty black holes as loners, not pairs

New capability: high-time resolution recording added to the MWA

2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey maps the mass of the local Universe

CAASTRO members’ contribution to MWA research honoured

ANGUS sees more faint and small galaxies in the early Universe

Twinkling of the nearest and brightest millisecond pulsar

What is producing the gamma-rays from the radio galaxy Fornax A?

Paving the way to the detection of the global EoR with BIGHORNS

Drift scans yield lower uncertainty in EoR observations with MWA

Previous CAASTRO PhD student at ICRAR scores top prize from ASA

First estimates of ionised Helium clumping factors

Old, gas-rich galaxies likely had early star formation boom

Where are all the pulsars at the Galactic Centre?

HMFcalc: An online tool for calculating halo mass functions

On the origins of Fast Radio Bursts and perytons: a statement

Why supernovae are brighter in old massive galaxies

At least a quarter of supernovae eject sub-Chandrasekhar masses

Clues to origin of luminous supernovae may lie in ultraviolet

Bright Active Galactic Nuclei cause high velocity ionised wind