2022 July Hybrid Project Meeting
The project meeting website is here: https://indico.mwatelescope.org/event/8/
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Recorded Talks
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Name | Title and PDF |
|---|---|
EDWARDS, Phil | Welcome by MWA Board Chair |
TINGAY, Steven | MWA Director's Update |
RISELEY, Christopher | Principal Scientist's Update |
BARRY, Nichole | EoR Analysis Bonanza |
STAR, Pyxie | Uncovering the detailed antenna bandpass using MWAX |
KRIELE, Mike | (Multi-system) Spherical Harmonic Transit Interferometry |
BELL, Scott | MWA Signal Path Animation |
ITO, Takumi | Foreground Removal with Gaussian Process Regression |
BHAT, Ramesh | Science update: Pulsars and Fast Transients |
ZHANG, Zhongli | The discovery of new VCS pulsars in dense stellar environments |
SWAINSTON, Nicholas | pulsar_spectra: an open source flux density catalogue and pulsar spectra fitting software |
MCSWEENEY, Sam | |
LEE, Christopher | |
KAUR, Dilpreet - Science Highlight Talk | |
MORALES, Miguel | Precision Map of Diffuse Galactic Emission Across the Southern Galactic Cap |
ROSS, Kathryn (Kat) | Using low frequency variability to find frustrated AGN |
WAYTH, Randall | Principal Engineer's Update |
NULL, Dev | |
BARLOW, Harrison | |
SLEAP, Greg | |
SLEAP, Greg | |
TINGAY, Steven | Wrap-up |
There were 85 registered participants for the meeting.
Prize Winners
Judged by Principal Scientist Chris Riseley.
Best talk: Kat Ross. Kat's work on spectral variability really showcases one of the key strengths of the MWA, namely the massive fractional bandwidth over such a large FoV, and the continued evolution of this project over the course of her PhD has been really great to witness. The synergy of MWA, ATCA and LBA follow-up is allowing her to finally answer such a long-standing question about the nature of these peaked-spectrum sources, and it's great to see this work presented in such a clear and engaging manner by a speaker who is very clearly enthused about the work and has a deep level of understanding.
Honourable mention: Nick Swainston and Mike Kriele both deserve mentions for their talks. Both the pulsar_spectra module that Nick presented and the all-sky diffuse mapping using EDA + LOFAR-LBA presented by Mike are really neat things in and of themselves, as well as providing a valuable resource to the community -- particularly given the ramping up of SMART, and the recent advancements made by the EoR group. Nichole's talk really emphasised the need for as good a model of the Galaxy as we can get, and Mike's talk bodes well in that regard.
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