2023 July Hybrid Project Meeting: 10 Year Anniversary
Information & Schedule
Dates: July 25-28, 2023
Location: Technology Park, Bentley, Western Australia
LOC: Mia Walker, Emmaline Yearsley, Aoife Stapleton, Carley Tillett
SOC: Steven Tingay (Chair), Jonathan Pober, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Keitaro Takahashi, Cathie Zheng, Divya Oberoi, Rachel Webster
Participants: 145 registered, predominately in-person attendance. Hosted by Curtin University
Meeting website: https://indico.mwatelescope.org/event/10/
Schedule: MWA Conference Schedule.pdf
Book of Abstracts: MWA Conference Book of Abstracts.pdf
Prize Winners
Judged by Principal Scientists Chris Riseley and Stefan Duchesne.
Best talk: Michael Wilensky; honourable mention: Mengyao Xue
Best poster: Macon Magno; honourable mention: Aman Chokshi
News and Media
Curtin media release: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/historic-mwa-milestone-reached-as-we-go-back-to-the-future-in-the-cosmos/
Twitter/X (see posts from July-August 2023): https://twitter.com/mwatelescope
TV news: 7 News Regional MWA Steven Tingay .mp4
Newspaper articles: Mid West Times and Northern Guardian Column .pdf, MWT Story .pdf
Presentation Slides
Speaker (in order of schedule) | Presentation | File/link |
|---|---|---|
Steven Tingay | Director’s Overview | |
Mark Gray | MWA and Pawsey: together for 47 petabytes and counting | |
Sarah Pearce | MWA importance as an SKA precursor | |
Randall Wayth, Chris Riseley | MWA Phase III Science and Engineering | |
Chenoa Tremblay | 10 Years of Galactic and Extra-Galactic (GEG) Astronomy | |
Stefan Duchesne | Abell 194 and getting the most out of archival datasets | |
Sean Paterson | A Deep Imaging Pipeline to Simplify Processing and Mosaicking of Survey Data | |
Linhui Wu | Diffuse Radio Emission in the Radio Lobes of M87 | |
Kathryn Ross | GLEAM-X IDRII: What's available and what's next! | |
Christopher Riseley | A decade of MWA magnetism: where did we come from and where are we going? | |
Ramesh Bhat | 10 years of Pulsars and Fast Transients with the MWA | |
Mengyao Xue | Probing the ISM towards the Gum Nebula using Pulsar Measurements | |
Bradley Meyers | The SMART pulsar survey: past, present, and future | |
Garvit Grover | Discovery and follow-up of a new long-period, nulling pulsar from the SMART survey | |
Roni Kerley | The MWA’s connections to the Indigenous community | |
Emma Tolley | Switzerland's motivation to join the MWA | |
Cathryn Trott | The MWA Epoch of Reionisation Project: the 10-year search for the 13 billion-year old signal | |
Stuart Wyithe | Constraining Reionization with MWA and beyond | |
Michael Wilensky | Evidence of Ultra-faint RFI in Deep 21~cm EoR Power Spectra with the MWA | |
Nichole Barry | Towards a New Upper Limit on the EoR 21-cm Measurement using FHD -- A Celebration and a Lament | |
Takumi Ito | Foreground Removal with Gaussian Process Regression | |
Katherine Elder | Effect of radiative mutual coupling on beam pattern | |
Divya Oberoi | Ten years of solar, heliospheric and ionospheric science with the MWA | |
John Morgan | Probing the high-resolution sky with Interplanetary Scintillation | |
Rohit Sharma | Detection and simulation of the weak radio bursts | |
Chris Brayton | Acknowledgement of country - CSIRO ARRC | |
Jiajun Zhang | Chinese Performance | |
Robert Goeke | Building the MWA | No slides |
Murray Hadley | MWA connections to industry: Science meets construction | |
Andrew | How to submit an MWA observing proposal | |
Greg Sleap | MWA Archive Update and Retrospective | |
Dev Null | Showcasing a Decade of Advancements in MWA Calibration Techniques | |
Ron Ekers | Lessons from the history of discoveries made (and missed) using radio frequency interferometers and arrays on our path to the MWA | |
Danny Price | Overview of SETI and the MWA: Technosignature and FRB searches with the MWA | |
Gemma Anderson | Celebrating 10 years of transient science with the MWA | |
Clancy James | Plans for the MWA Particle Detector Array | |
Jun Tian | MWA rapid follow-up of gravitational wave transients: prospects for detecting prompt radio counterparts | |
Marcin Sokolowski | All-sky high-time resolution monitoring of transient sky with SKA-Low stations | |
Natasha Hurley-Walker | Long-period radio transients | 2023-07-28 Long-period radio transients (MWA Project Meeting).pdf |
GIF: The MWA tile beam pattern as a function of frequency. Credit: Maria Kovaleva, Curtin University
Each in-person meeting participant received a small 3D-printed beam pattern (at Channel 125, or ~160MHz).
Photos
Image credit: Curtin University. Photographer: Michael Goh