2023 July Hybrid Project Meeting: 10 Year Anniversary
Contents
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 | MWA-SKAO 10 year - slides v1.pdf |
| 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 | MWA 10 Year Celebration Presentation (1).pptx |
| 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 | NB_MWA2023.pdf |
| 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 | 崇祯历书英文版.pptx |
| Robert Goeke | Building the MWA | No slides |
| Murray Hadley | MWA connections to industry: Science meets construction | MWA Project Presentation.pptx |
| Andrew Williams | 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 | Radio interferometers - MWA10 cut.pptx |
| 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 |
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
