Galactic continuum

Team lead: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker

Membership

Mailing list roster: https://mwa-lfd.haystack.mit.edu/mailman/roster/geg-snr

Published work

• Hindson et al. (2016): A Large-Scale, Low-Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic H ii Regions between 260 < l < 340
• Su et al. (2017): Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250° < l < 355° from the GLEAM survey with the MWA
• Su et al. (2018): Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements from the full GLEAM survey

Submitted papers

• Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin/ICRAR): Galactic Plane data release over 345 < l < 60, 180 < l < 240
• Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin/ICRAR): Candidate SNR observations over 345 < l < 60, 180 < l < 240
• Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin/ICRAR): New candidate SNRs detected in 345 < l < 60, 180 < l < 240
• Nigel Maxted (UNSW Canberra): The Galactic Supernova Remnant Candidate G23.11+0.18 and its possible Gamma-ray Counterpart HESS J1832-085

Active projects

• Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin/ICRAR): Low-frequency search for the emission shell around the Crab
• /wiki/spaces/MP/pages/24973276
• Bryan Gaensler (Toronto): Searching for pulsar wind nebulae around energetic pulsars in GLEAM
• Hongquan Su (Curtin): HII region absorption measurements (MWA Student Project)
• Miroslav Filipovic, Ivan Bojicic, Timothy Galvin (Western Sydney University): Galactic Planetary Nebulae as seen by MWA
• Miroslav Filipovic, Ivan Bojicic (Western Sydney University): The low-frequency radio observations of the Galactic supernova remnant G5.9+3.1
• Wenwu Tian, Hongquan Su, Xiaocong Cui (BAO): Identify TeV supernova remnants in GLEAM (under discussion)

Projects not yet proposed to GEG

• Anne Green, Sarah Reeves, Tara Murphy (USyd), MJH (VUW): Use GLEAM data to confirm remnants originally detected in MGPS and IR data.
• Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (Curtin/ICRAR): Testing novel source-finders (Hoff transforms)
• Kieran Luken / Miroslav Filipovic: Radio Observations of Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3

"Open" projects: available for students or postdocs after discussion with the Galactic Continuum team

• The environment and star formation around SNR (originally Luke Hindson (VUW))
• Low-frequency emission and polarisation towards the Gum Nebula (originally Cormac Purcell (USyd))

Need polarisation data

• Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO): Faraday Rotation through large SNR
• Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO): Depolarisation of Supernova Remnants
• Xiaohui Sun (USyd): Magnetic fields of SNR

Minutes

• 20150505SNR
• 20140812SNR
• 20130716SNR

Data processing

GLEAM and /wiki/spaces/MP/pages/24971869 processing are tracked on their own pages. MWATS also has data which could be used.