From matthew.colless at anu.edu.au Mon Feb 16 09:39:39 2015 From: matthew.colless at anu.edu.au (Matthew Colless) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:39:39 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Comments on the Discussion Paper on Astronomy Infrastructure Governance Message-ID: <35E1A2E6-1E74-453D-B222-C9569B840A8F@anu.edu.au> Dear ASA, Please circulate the attached short document providing comments on the Discussion Paper on Astronomy Infrastructure Governance, as input to the discussion being held as part of the roadshow. Thanks, Matthew. Professor Matthew Colless > Director, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Work: +61-2-6125-0266 Mobile:+61-431-898-345 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applying for AAT Telescope Time through ATAC Important information for applicants Time available for new proposals: Because of existing Large Programs and other obligations, there are roughly 57 nights available for new proposals in Semester 15B (17 dark, 11 grey, 29 bright). A call for Large AAT Programs will not be made in Semester 2015B. Proposals for Long Term AAT Programs are welcome in 2015B. New proposal submission system The AAO has moved to a new proposal submission system, known as Lens This system is a user account based system, which will allow for improved security and better tracking of past and current proposals. There is an FAQ available for Lens, available via the FAQ tab in Lens itself, or via the direct link http://www.aao.gov.au/lens/faq . Users who have applied for time as PI in the previous semesters (i.e. starting from 2013A to 2014B) have had accounts pre-configured and will have received an email with their login details. Users that applied for time in 2015A will also have a Lens account. All other users are encouraged to register with the system at https://www.aao.gov.au/lens/register Note that users cannot be added to proposals if they are not registered in Lens. Please make sure that all investigators on a proposal have registered well before the deadline! For any queries or comments, please email lens at aao.gov.au . Instrument status UHRF has been decommissioned. In 2014B, the red CCD in AAOmega was upgraded. This provides a significant increase in throughput as well as extend the throughput out to ~1 micron. HERMES status HERMES is now a general-user instrument. Questions about expected instrument performance should be directed to the HERMES Project Scientist, Gayandhi De Silva ( gayandhi.desliva at aao.gov.au ). KOALA status KOALA (Kilo-fibre Optical AAT Lenslet Array) has replaced SPIRAL as the integral-field capability to AAOmega. KOALA has a selectable spatial resolution of 0.7"or 1.25", an increase in throughput at all wavelengths, particularly at the extreme blue, and simplified field rotation. Information on KOALA can be found in the instrumentation page and a new exposure time calculator is available. Questions about expected performance should be directed to the KOALA instrument scientist, Andy Green ( andrew.green at aao.gov.au ). Remote observing Since Semester 13A, remote observing from the AAO's North Ryde headquarters has been available as an option for all AAT facility instruments. We are developing a framework for offsite remote observing at a later stage, in order to allow astronomers across Australia to observe from their home institutions. Until that system is ready, observers who wish to travel to Sydney to carry out remote observations can continue to access the existing Travel and Accommodation support offered to AAT observers. Service time If projects require fewer than 6 hours of observing time, they can be performed in service time. Applications for service time are made electronically direct to the AAO and are now accepted year-round. See the AAT Service Observing page for more details. Applying for CTIO time-swap Time through ATAC AAO-CTIO time-swap arrangement The AAO and NOAO/CTIO have initiated a time-swap arrangement, to allow our respective communities to maximise their scientific opportunities through access to a broader range of facilities. In Semester 15B there will be 5 nights available to the Australian community to apply for CTIO time. Generally a uniform distribution of lunations will be available to the Australian community. This uniform distribution is particularly important in B semesters (especially Sept-Nov) due to existing CTIO commitments. Note, DECam has been demonstrated to produce useful imaging in the reddest filters (izY) on all but the very brightest nights. All scheduled observations will be carried out in classical mode with observers required to travel to the telescope. Note, starting in 2016 only 5 nights per semester will be available through the AAO. Previously, 15 CTIO nights were available in Semester A. Instruments available The DECam imager, the ISPI IR imager and the COSMOS spectrograph are available for Australian proposals. COSMOS is available in an imaging and longslit spectroscopy (slitwidth of 0.6" or 0.9") modes. The multi-object spectroscopic capability of COSMOS is now available in a shared-risk mode. Please review Current CTIO Instrumentation Status and CTIO Telescope?Information for more information. How to apply Those who wish to apply for this time should do so using the Lens proposal system, selecting "CTIO 4m" from the telescopes menu on the first page of the proposal form. The standard proposal page limits and recommendations regarding technical justifications should be followed. The proposals will be assessed by ATAC, and graded proposals provided to CTIO for scheduling. How to Apply for AAT Time - the Basic Steps Instrument status and policies All ATAC applicants should check the latest Instrument Availability and recent Policy Announcements . If you require further clarification on any issue, then please contact the AAT Technical Secretary ( aatts at aao.gov.au ). See Special Override Rules for proposals seeking time as an override on another program's time and the Long Term Program page for those seeking long term status. Proposals requiring at most 6 hours of observing time should be submitted to the AAO's Service Observing program. If the PI, and at least half the observing team are from European countries, they may apply for AAT time through the OPTICON program . Proposal content Full Technical Details, outlining how you derived your time estimates, observing constraints, and any special requests should be included in the scientific case (preferably under a separate section heading). Proposals should be written such that the content and significance is understandable by a wide range of astronomers. If your proposal seeks time on two instruments, outline carefully the relative requirements of the different instrument set-ups, including the split in observing time between the instruments. If the observations are essential to the completion of a student's PhD thesis, then a full explanation must be given in the science case. No special consideration is given to proposals involving PhD students, except when attempting to schedule proposals near the cut-off, when some priority may be given. All AAT applicants are required to add on a 33% allowance for bad weather to the total time you estimate you will need to reach the desired signal-to-noise, plus readout, slewing, and acquisition time. All applicants should be aware that it is the policy of the AAO that any backup project must use the same instrument as the main project. A list of the principal targets (field centres for AAOmega+2dF programs) should be prepared as a separate PDF document. The target list should contain target name, RA (h m s), Dec (d m s), target brightness, and priority. There is a 2-page limit for this target list PDF file. Other document formats will not be accepted. Proposal submission details Prepare your main proposal offline, including an abstract, target list, science case, and technical justification. The science case and technical justification together should be, in PDF format, no more than three pages total, with two pages for the science case and one page for technical justification. The split into two pages science, plus one page technical, is a change from previous semesters. Those three pages should include all references and figures, use 11pt font (or larger), and have at least 10mm margins. Colour figures are accepted. Other document formats will not be accepted. The limit for pre-approved Long-Term programs is five pages. Please contact the ATAC Secretary, Helen Woods ( helen.woods at aao.gov.au ) well in advance of submitting this kind of proposal. Submitting your proposal When your proposal details are ready, submit your application to ATAC through Lens, the AAT's new proposal system. As noted above, this is a user-account-based system and all investigators on a proposal must be registered. Contacting the ATAC Secretariat The Secretary, ATAC Australian Astronomical Observatory PO Box 915 North Ryde NSW 1670 Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9372 4800 Fax: +61 (0)2 9372 4880 Email enquiries: Helen Woods ( helen.woods at aao.gov.au ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Tue Feb 17 12:13:29 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:13:29 +1100 Subject: [ASA] IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes Message-ID: <54E295B9.1000206@aao.gov.au> Dear ASA members, There is an opportunity for young scientists (less than 8 years post-PhD with suitable allowance for career breaks) to be nominated for the IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes. The deadline is 1 June 2015. The award is a medal and 1000 euros. Two awards will be made for researchers in the field of astrophysics. Please consider nominating yourself, or if you are not eligible, identifying someone to nominate. Details are at the links below: http://aas.org/posts/opportunity/2015/02/nominations-open-iupap-young-scientist-prizes http://iupap.org/c19-young-scientist-prize-2015-nominations-due-1-june-2015/ Andrew Hopkins President, ASA -- A. Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia ph: +61 2 9372 4849 fax: +61 2 9372 4880 From jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au Tue Feb 17 16:08:00 2015 From: jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au (Julia Bryant) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:08:00 +1100 Subject: [ASA] HECTOR Science Workshop 8th April Message-ID: <13BB4294-2F5E-4E63-BCF7-459F332A05C1@physics.usyd.edu.au> Dear ASA members, Attached is an invitation to the upcoming HECTOR science workshop. Feel free to forward to any non-members who may be interested. 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We have an exciting year in front of us and i?ll announce more detail on that soon. > > For now, to kick things off for February we have a special guest lecturer, David Wilner from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. David is the Associate Director of the Radio & Geoastronomy Division and an expert in circumstellar disks, the formation of planets, and the development of aperture synthesis techniques. > > He?ll be giving us two lectures on consecutive weeks: > > Title: Radio Astronomy and Interferometry Fundamentals > Date: 2pm (AEDT) Thursday 19th February > Link: http://anita.edu.au/lectures/radio-astronomy-and-interferometry-fundamentals-david-wilner/ > > Abstract: > Radio astronomy uses observations at radio wavelengths to study celestial objects. This lecture will provide a brief introduction to radio astronomy, including a description of common emission mechanisms and radio telescopes, and why multiple telescopes are linked as interferometers to make high resolution "aperture synthesis" images (a technique recognized by the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics). We will use pictures to develop intuition about the Fourier transform relationship between the sky brightness and visibility function that underlies radio interferometry. (A companion lecture will provide a pedagogical introduction to the process by which radiointerferometric images are made.) > > > Title: Imaging and Deconvolution in Radio Interferometry > Date: 2pm (AEDT) Thursday 26th February > Link: http://anita.edu.au/lectures/imaging-and-deconvolution-in-radio-interferometry-david-wilner/ > > Abstract: > Observations with a typical radio interferometer provide incomplete and noisy samples of the Fourier transform of the sky brightness image that we'd like to analyze. This lecture will provide a pedagogical and practical introduction to the process by which radio interferometric images are made, including visibility weighting and tapering schemes and algorithm-based deconvolution methods to deal with inevitable missing samples. We will conclude with a brief discussion of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, an new radio interferometer with unprecedented imaging capabilities at millimeter wavelengths. > > Head over to the ANITA Lecture page for more information on this and recordings of our past lectures: http://anita.edu.au/lectures/ > > Thanks, > Darren Croton & Chris Power (& Sarah Maddison) > > > ----------------------------- > The lecture will be held through Google Hangouts on Air. > You'll first need a Google account (e.g. gmail). Log in to it. > If you've never done a Google Hangout before you'll need to install a plugin for your browser. See https://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/hangoutplugin > On Google+ search for "Anita Chapter" and head to our page. > Alternatively, go directly to our Chapter page here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104967001091880466806/posts > You'll see a post for the Hangout on Air at around the start time - hit play and enjoy! > Some hints for a better experience: > You can breakout the small video window on the Google+ page by opening it in YouTube. This gives you a much bigger view. > Post any comments/questions under the video in the comments box on the Google+ or YouTube page. We'll try and answer them in real-time. > I don't believe that comments are updated automatically; you may need to reload the page to see the latest. > All lectures will be hosted on our ANITA YouTube page for later viewing. -- Darren Croton Professor of Astrophysics Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: 61-3-9214-5537; Fax: 61-3-9214-8797 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.walsh at curtin.edu.au Wed Feb 18 19:18:36 2015 From: andrew.walsh at curtin.edu.au (Andrew Walsh) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:18:36 +0800 Subject: [ASA] 2015 ASA ASM - REGISTRATION OPEN In-Reply-To: <54E44A4F.3030902@curtin.edu.au> References: <54E44A4F.3030902@curtin.edu.au> Message-ID: <54E44ADC.7040704@curtin.edu.au> ** 2015 ASA ASM - REGISTRATION OPEN ** The 2015 Astronomical Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) will be held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, WA between July 5th to 10th. The Esplanade Hotel is located in the centre of Fremantle, a busy port town and popular tourist destination on the coast, with Perth located 20km away. Just before the ASM, the annual Harley Wood School for Astronomy (HWSA) will be held on Rottnest Island from the 2nd to 5th of July. The website for the meeting contains useful information on both the ASM and HWSA and can be found at: http://www.asa2015.org Registration for both the ASM and HWSA and abstract submission for the ASM is now open! A summary timeline is given below: 18FEB - Registration and Abstract submission open 01APR - Abstract submission closes 01MAY - Program released 22MAY - Early-bird registration closes 26JUN - Full-price registration closes (late registration allowed up to first day of the ASM) 02JUL - HWSA begins 05JUL - Welcome Reception for ASM We have decided to close abstract submission and release the program earlier in the year than is traditional for ASMs. This is to give presenters more time to prepare oral or poster presentations, as well as allow people to register at the early-bird price once the full program is known. Please note, however, that there is a $100 cancellation fee should you decide to withdraw your registration before the 5th of June. Please also note that for the HWSA, we need to let Rottnest Accommodation know how many people will be attending by the 1st of April. So we *strongly* encourage any students wishing to register for the HWSA to please do so before this date. After this date, we cannot guarantee accommodation. Our current list of confirmed invited speakers for the ASM includes the following people: Elaine Sadler - The University of Sydney - Ellery Lecture Krzysztof Bolejko - University of Sydney John Eldridge - University of Auckland Virginia Kilborn - Swinburne Claudia Lagos - ICRAR-UWA Paul Lasky - Monash Katherine Mack - Melbourne James Miller-Jones - ICRAR-Curtin Gayandhi de Silva - AAO Rob Wittenmyer - UNSW Fang Yuan - ANU We look forward to welcoming you to Perth and Fremantle in July! If you require any further information, please feel free to contact us: Andrew Walsh (andrew.walsh at curtin.edu.au) Cath Trott (Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au) LOC and SOC co-Chairs of the ASA ASM Rebecca Lange (rebecca.lange at icrar.org) - Chair of HWSA LOC Angus Wright (angus.wright at icrar.org) - Chair of HWSA SOC From Simon.Ellingsen at utas.edu.au Fri Feb 20 07:56:26 2015 From: Simon.Ellingsen at utas.edu.au (Simon Ellingsen) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:56:26 +1100 Subject: [ASA] First announcement of Summer Schoool: New Era of the Cosmic Distance Scale Message-ID: <076F7836-AAD0-4AE0-B711-A4F18F43CC4B@utas.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, Please see the information below from Noriyuki Matsunaga. We are pleased to make the 1st announcement for a 1-week summer school on the Cosmic Distance Scale, to be held in Tokyo, Japan. This school will cover a wide range of distance measurement techniques from trigonometric parallaxes to cosmological distance measurements and related scientific topics. Distinguished lecturers in various fields will give dedicated lectures on the basics and cutting edge of the field of distance measurement as well as on expected future developments. http://stella.astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CDSchool/ June 29--July 3, 2015 Hongo Campus of The University of Tokyo http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/documents/accessmap_E.pdf English Giuseppe Bono - Theoretical backgrounds of pulsating stars Richard de Grijs - Distance scale and pitfalls Wendy Freedman - Cosmology from near to far Gerard Gilmore - Gaia: applications to the distance scale Shri Kulkarni - Supernovae Barry Madore - Population II distance indicators Francois Mignard - Gaia: Principles and Techniques Takeo Minezaki - Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) Grzegorz Pietrzynski - Eclipsing binaries Mark Reid - VLBI parallaxes Sherry Suyu - Gravitational lensing Masahiro Takada - Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) Patricia Whitelock - Asymptotic Giant Branch Variables Daisuke Yonetoku - Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) TBD - Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) We will mainly consider PhD course and master course students as well as early-career postdocs. The expected number of the participants is 80 including both international (~40) and domestic (~40) attendees. We will likely receive registration requests from senior researchers, but will give priority to younger participants in our selection. We call for both oral and poster presentations by participants. There will be slots for a limited number of oral/poster presentations by participants, but selection will be made based on the abstracts and other information provided at registration. We will organise a banquet and an excursion. Welcome cocktails and public lectures are also planned. We will conduct a process evaluation of the summer school in collaboration with and endorsed by the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development through East Asian Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (EA-ROAD). The evaluation process will consist of asking prospective participants to answer a set of questions to gauge their level of understanding prior to the school, followed by a similar exercise towards the end of the school. This evaluation will offer us an opportunity to measure changes in participants' knowledge and understanding. This collaboration with the EA-ROAD will be useful in developing a framework to assess the efficacy of future summer schools supported by the International Astronomical Union. 18 Feb 2015--1st announcement 18 Feb 2015--Website opens. 18 Feb 2015--Pre-registration opens. 13 Mar 2015--2nd announcement 13 Mar 2015--Registration opens. 10 Apr 2015--Deadline for abstract submission and early registration late Apr 2015--Selection of presentations and travel support will be notified. late Apr 2015--Registration closes. early June 2015--3rd announcement 29 June 2015--School starts. We encourage possible participants to pre-register. You will receive further information via e-mail. Participants will be requested to pay the registration fee. A discount for participants who register early is foreseen. Please check these again in the next announcement. The Cosmic Distance Scale plays a fundamental role in a broad range of topics in astronomy. This is because it is not easy to know distances to astronomical objects and yet the distances are important to study many characteristics of the objects, such as their luminosities and masses, sizes and ages. An accurate distance scale is also required to reconstruct the structure and evolution of the Universe itself. Continuing efforts have been made to develop the Cosmic Distance Scale ever since very early pioneering works such as the first measurements of trigonometric parallaxes in the 19th Century and the discovery of the period-luminosity relation of Cepheids around a hundred years ago. There have been great advances in the recent decades; for example, supernova distance measurments enabled us to discover the accelerating expansion of the Universe. On the other hand, accurate measurements of the cosmic background radiation made it possible to study the structure and evolution of the Universe, which is one of the main goals to establish the Cosmic Distance Scale. An important aspect in measuring astronomical distances is that no single method can be used for the entire range from the proximity within the solar system to the distant Universe. Therefore, it is important to keep the methods well-calibrated step-by-step from the starting point based on trigonometric parallax. In this context, this is a very exciting time because the Gaia will provide unprecedented measurements of parallaxes in the very near future, which will have a large impact on the entire range of the Cosmic Distance Scale. There are also high-impact projects ongoing and planned, which will deliver new insights into the structure of the Universe including several projects led by Japan such as JASMINE, VERA, and, SuMIRe. While recent developements of observational facilities and techniques have made it feasible to measure distances to objects across the entire range of the Universe, recent achievements have demonstrated that it is important to make the distance indicators both precise and robust. Such recent developements require us to understand the accuracy, range of application, and limits to each method and how it is related to other methods. In this school, distinguished experts in various fields will give lectures on the basic principles of the methods to the expected progress in the near future. It will be a good opportunity to share a broad perspective on the Cosmic Distance Scale among young astronomers who will play an active role in a wide range of astronomy. The Cosmic Distance Scale indeed covers various fields of astronomy which are related to one another, and this school will also offer a chance to spend time with international young astronomers working in different subfields. SOC: Giuseppe Bono (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Richard de Grijs (Kavli Institute, Peking University) Mamoru Doi (Co-chair; Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Naoteru Gouda (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Mareki Honma (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Noriyuki Matsunaga (Co-chair; Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Takeo Minezaki (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Ken'ichi Nomoto (Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo) Hiromoto Shibahashi (Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Naotaka Suzuki (Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo) Tomonori Totani (Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Yuzuru Yoshii (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) LOC: Noriyuki Matsunaga (Chair; Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Takeo Minezaki (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Tomoki Morokuma (Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo) Nobuyuki Sakai (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Takuji Tsujimoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) This summer school has received funding from the following programmes (more information such as grant numbers are available in our web site). - Ito International Research Center Symposium - European Union's Seventh Framework Programme - Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the JSPS - Others to be confirmed. LOC - cdschool_loc (at) astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise. From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Fri Feb 20 16:09:27 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:09:27 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Input to the astronomy governance discussion Message-ID: <54E6C187.9020207@aao.gov.au> Dear ASA Members, Many of you will now have had the chance to hear discussions at town hall meetings around the country regarding Australian astronomy governance issues. You are all invited to submit your thoughts and feedback by 6 March 2015 to: astronomygovernance at industry.gov.au For those of you who wish your submissions to be made public, please indicate that when you submit your feedback. Those submissions that are to be made public will be distributed to the ASA mailing list, either through a link to a web page, or as a collated single document, after the deadline for submissions has passed. I will be coordinating this with David Luchetti in order to prevent a potentially large series of individual documents being distributed separately over the mailing list in the coming few weeks. Andrew Hopkins President, ASA -- A. Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia ph: +61 2 9372 4849 fax: +61 2 9372 4880