From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Jan 26 10:05:33 2016 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:05:33 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 70th Anniversary of the first radio astronomy interferometry - Australia Day Message-ID: <9B260D08-0AB6-4B88-9FE0-9A5BBDB0C236@sydney.edu.au> Today in Australia marks the 70th anniversary of the first radio astronomy interferometry done by radio astronomers in the world. A sea cliff interferometer was used by Ruby Payne-Scott at Dover Heights - Sydney at sunrise 26 January 1946. Strong Type I bursts (1 Million Jansky) were observed, arising from a large sunspot. The paper was submitted to the Proceedings of the Royal Society on 22 July 1946 and published 22 August 1947 by the CSIR (pre-CSIRO) Division of Radiophysics team of Lindsay McCready , Joe Pawsey and Ruby Payne-Scott (observations by Payne-Scott). Chris Hales has sent out a message on Twitter today about this anniversary. 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Name: GMT SAC advert Feb2016.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 114338 bytes Desc: not available URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Thu Jan 28 22:59:02 2016 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:59:02 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Aus SKA science news from ANZSCC SAC - January 2016 Message-ID: <5BA361CF-CF22-45C1-8EE1-A46E0E0EA09D@sydney.edu.au> Dear ASA Members ? an SKA update from the ANZSCC SAC One of the ongoing aims of the ANZSCC Science Advisory Committee (SAC) is to maintain good communications within the Australian astronomical community on SKA related issues. The SAC is committed to providing public summaries of each of our quarterly meetings. The last SAC meeting was on 6 November 2015 and the summary of the discussions can be found here: http://www.ska.gov.au/science/Documents/2015-11-06%20Summary%20of%20Nov%202015%20SAC%20meeting.pdf The next SAC meeting will be on 26 February 2016 at CAASTRO HQ in Sydney. Key items on the agenda will be * Progress with the SKA intergovernmental negotiation. * Implementation of an Australian SKA fellowship scheme. * The OzSKA 2016 meeting to be held on 8 April as a forum for face-to-face SKA related discussions and key updates; a further announcement will follow from the OC in due course. The SAC welcomes input from the community at any time: if you have suggestions on SKA science-related issues please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards Carole ANZSCC SAC Chair Professor Carole Jackson Professor, Radio Astronomy & WA Premier?s Fellow International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) Street Address Building 610, Room 134, Brodie-Hall Building 1 Turner Avenue Bentley Technology Park Bentley WA 6102 Post: GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845 Australia Curtin University Tel |+61 8 9266 4908 Mobile |0401 103 500 Email |carole.jackson at curtin.edu.au www.icrar.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: