English
Related papers

Related papers: The First Observations with the GRT at Parkes

200 papers

NRT is an international project to build and operate the world's largest robotic telescope. The telescope will have a segmented primary mirror with an equivalent diameter of 4 m, a set of simultaneously mounted optical and near-infrared…

The discoveries of the radio source Centaurus A and its optical counterpart NGC 5128 were important landmarks in the history of Australian astronomy. NGC 5128 was first observed in August 1826 by James Dunlop during a survey of southern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-24 Peter Robertson , Glen Cozens , Wayne Orchiston , Bruce Slee , Harry Wendt

Recently, there have been reports of six bright, dispersed bursts of coherent radio emission found in pulsar surveys with the Parkes Multi-beam Receiver. Not much is known about the progenitors of these bursts, but they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-10 T. E. Hassall , E. F. Keane , R. P. Fender

The upgraded GMRT (uGMRT) with its unprecedented sensitivity and high figure of merit, is expected to result in the discovery of a large population of pulsars including pulsars of previously unknown type. In the phase-2 of the GMRT High…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Jayanta Roy

I will discuss the motivations for Neutrino Astronomy and its prospects given the current experimental scenario, which is the main focus of this paper. I will also go through the first results of the IceCube detector deep in the ice and of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Teresa Montaruli

We describe the steps involved in performing searches for sources of transient radio emission such as Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), and present 10 new transient radio sources discovered in a re-analysis of the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. F. Keane , D. A. Ludovici , R. P. Eatough , M. Kramer , A. G. Lyne , M. A. McLaughlin , B. W. Stappers , .

Over the past 13 years, the Parkes radio telescope has observed a large number of pulsars using digital filterbank backends with high time and frequency resolution and the capability for Stokes recording. Here we use archival data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Simon Johnston , Matthew Kerr

Green Peas are a new class of young, emission line galaxies that were discovered by citizen volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project. Their low stellar mass, low metallicity and very high star formation rates make Green Peas the nearby (z~0.2)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sayan Chakraborti , Naveen Yadav , Carolin Cardamone , Alak Ray

The advent of sensitive polarimeters on large telescopes has led to a revolution in our understanding of active galaxies over the last 20 years. In the case of powerful radio galaxies the deep polarimetric measurements made possible by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Clive Tadhunter

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs), with linear sizes larger than 1 Mpc (H0=50 km/s/Mpc), represent the biggest single objects in the Universe. GRGs are rare among the entire population of radio galaxies (RGs) and their physical evolution is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Jamrozy , U. Klein , J. Machalski , K. -H. Mack

The advent of new generation radio telescopes is opening new possibilities on the classification and study of extragalactic high-energy sources, specially the underrepresented ones like radio galaxies. Among these, Giant Radio Galaxies…

FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The characteristics of FAST are presented and analyzed in the context of the parameter space to show how FAST science achievements are affected. We summarize the scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Lei Qian , Rui Yao , Jinghai Sun , Jinlong Xu , Zhichen Pan , Peng Jiang

In this paper we present follow-up optical observations of Ultra Steep Spectrum sources that were found by matching 150 MHz GMRT sources with either the 74 MHz VLSS or the 1400 MHz NVSS. These sources are possibly high-redshift radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-12 Samuel J. George , Ian R. Stevens

Leptons will play a key role in the first measurements performed by the LHC experiments. The ATLAS and CMS detectors are now built, and early estimates of their performances have been revisited. The expected first physics signals are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-12 C. Adam-Bourdarios

The study of the formation of massive stars presents complex challenges from both theoretical and observational points of view. The initial phases of evolution, for instance, remain almost hidden except at radio and IR wavelengths. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-08 Paula Benaglia

This paper presents a review of the history, motivation and current status of high energy neutrino telescopes. Many years after these detectors were first conceived, the operation of kilometer-cubed scale detectors is finally on the horizon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 K. D. Hoffman

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a sensitive survey of a strip along the Galactic plane with |b|<5 deg and l=260 deg to l=50 deg. It uses a 13-beam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope, receiving two polarisations per beam over…

The new generation of ground-based, large-aperture solar telescopes promises to significantly increase our capabilities to understand the many basic phenomena taking place in the Sun at all atmospheric layers and how they relate to each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 JC. del Toro Iniesta , D. Orozco Suarez

We report the discovery of two new giant radio galaxies (GRGs) using the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. Both GRGs were found within a 1 deg^2 region inside the COSMOS field. They have redshifts…

In Paper I of this series, we detected a significant value of the braking index ($n$) for 19 young, high-$\dot{E}$ radio pulsars using $\sim$ 10 years of timing observations from the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. Here we investigate this…