From Chenoa.Tremblay at csiro.au Mon Sep 2 13:04:33 2019 From: Chenoa.Tremblay at csiro.au (Tremblay, Chenoa (CASS, Kensington WA)) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 03:04:33 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2019 CSIRO Radio Astronomy School - Extended Registration Message-ID: <91117A2A-01A7-4E4B-8E5D-277C1C4373E6@csiro.au> Dear All, Please forward this message onto your students and early career researchers that may be interested in expanding their skills in radio astronomy. This is a reminder that the 2019 Radio Astronomy School is quickly approaching. We have a small number of spaces left available so we have extended the registration until the end of this week (6 September 2019). This year?s program will cover interferometry, single dish telescopes and time-domain science. We are endeavouring to cover all of these in the tutorials as well, and have included in pipeline development and instructions on software that can make your life easier. See the website for more details. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QI3iCxnMRvtl9BB5i8wWSD?domain=atnf.csiro.au Registration can be completed at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QI3iCxnMRvtl9BB5i8wWSD?domain=atnf.csiro.au. Students will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Regards, Dr. Chenoa Tremblay Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dark Magnetism E chenoa.tremblay at csiro.au CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science 26 Dick Perry Avenue Kensington www.csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au Mon Sep 2 14:56:02 2019 From: Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au (Christopher Lidman) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 04:56:02 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?Delta_Call_for_AAT_Proposals_=E2=80=93_Deadline?= =?utf-8?q?=3A_5pm=2C_Friday=2C_September_6th?= Message-ID: <41E80AD8-DCF8-44A2-8204-2D71F8086B8E@anu.edu.au> Delta Call for AAT Proposals ? Deadline: 5pm, Friday, September 6th The Australian Time Allocation Committee (ATAC) is issuing a delta call soliciting proposals to use the Anglo-Australian Telescope during the next three months. Proposals must be submitted using the Lens proposal preparation system, which has been opened for this delta call. Details on how to prepare proposals are available from https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/t2MFCK1qJZtoB1R5HMLSa2?domain=aat.anu.edu.au In addition to the details noted on this page, the following restrictions apply * Targets must be visible during the coming three months * In order to distinguish these proposals from the current 2020A call, please start the title of the proposal with the phrase ?Delta Call:? * Proposals using visitor instruments are accepted * Proposals using VELOCE and KOALA are accepted * Proposals using 2dF will not be accepted * Deadline: 5pm AEST, Friday, September 6th Submission of proposals and the list of instruments for the forthcoming 2020A semester are unaffected. Chris Lidman and Lucyna Chudczer (On behalf of ATAC) A/Professor Chris Lidman Director, Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Work: +61-2-6125-0238 Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.brough at unsw.edu.au Tue Sep 3 10:10:26 2019 From: s.brough at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Brough) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:10:26 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Fwd: 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Portsmouth, UK In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4333a4ef-9f1e-a21e-6cb2-4e7c3137f424@unsw.edu.au> (Sent on behalf of Ema Dimastrogiovanni - e.dimastrogiovanni at unsw.edu.au) 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Portsmouth, UK Dear Colleagues, registration has opened for the 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, taking place in Portsmouth, UK from Sunday 15 to Friday 20 December 2019. As conveners of, respectively, the parallel sessions on -- cosmology/cosmic microwave background & re-ionization and -- cosmology/early universe and the origin of structure we would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit an abstract for these sessions. The deadline for abstracts submission is the 27th of September 2019. Notification of acceptance will be on the 14th of October. Registration for early-bird fees will end on 25 October 2019, and general registration will close on 22 November 2019. More information on the symposium is appended below. We hope to see you in Portsmouth UK in December. Ema Dimastrogiovanni and Matteo Fasiello ======================================== 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics Sunday 15 to Friday 20 December 2019, Portsmouth, UK Registration and Call for Abstracts is now open Abstract submission deadline is 27th September 2019. Early-bird registration fee payment deadline is 25th October. Registration closes 22nd of November. See the web site https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QytLCnxyErCErzOjt9Th6u?domain=texas2019.org for more details. The Texas meetings have covered topics such as black holes, gravitational waves, neutron stars, cosmic rays, dark matter and the early Universe since the first symposium, held in Dallas in 1963. Following the tradition of previous meetings, the 2019 Symposium will cover a broad range of subjects in relativistic astrophysics, including: Gravity: Test of Gravity, Modified Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Numerical Relativity Cosmology: CMB, Reionisation, Early Universe, LSS, Lensing, Supernovae, Dark Energy, Simulations Gravitational Waves: Modelling, Sources, Experiments, Pulsar timing Messengers: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays, X-Rays, Neutrinos Relativity At Work: Black holes, AGN, Quasars, Neutron stars, Discs, Jets & Magnetic Fields Invited Speakers Antony Lewis (University of Sussex, UK) Astrid Eichorn (University of Southern Denmark & Heidelberg University, Germany) Chris Reynolds (University of Cambridge, UK) Claudia De Rham (Imperial College London, UK) Dany Page (National Autonomous University, Mexico) Elena Gallo (University of Michigan, USA) Elena Rossi (Leiden University, Netherlands) Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich, Germany) Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona, USA) Giovanni Losurdo (INFN Pisa, Italy) Juan Garcia-Bellido (University of Madrid, Spain) Luciano Rezzolla (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Martin Lemoine (IAP, France) Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern University, USA) Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) Tanja Hinderer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Tom Giblin (Kenyon College Ohio, USA) Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, Brazil) We look forward to seeing you in Portsmouth this December! 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Under the terms of the Strategic Partnership between ESO and Australia, Australian-based astronomers have access to the facilities of the La Silla and Paranal Observatories, specifically the: * 3.6-m telescope (3.6 ); * New Technology Telescope (NTT ); * Very Large Telescope (VLT ); * Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI ); * Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA ); and * VLT Survey Telescope (VST ). Proposals for ESO time (in late March, May and July 2020) to use the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX ) antenna on Chajnantor will also be considered on the same basis as those from any ESO member state. The proposal deadline is Thursday 26 September 2019 at noon Central European Summer Time (8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, 6pm Australian Western Standard Time). Complete details on how to apply can be found at the P105 Call for Proposals web page . All applicants should consult the Call for Proposals document for Period 105 , and will require an ESO User Portal account to submit proposals. A wealth of information for Australian applicants can be found on AAL's Australian ESO Forum , including an update from Users Committee representative Caroline Foster . Registration is now open for the 2nd ESO-Australia Joint Conference, on the topic of "The Build-up of Galaxies through Multiple Tracers and Facilities ", to be held at the University of Western Australia from 17-21 February 2020. Building on the success of the 1st ESO-Australia conference in Sydney in February 2019 that was primarily focused on IFU surveys, this meeting will broaden interdisciplinary connections to include the Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders in Australia, the ESO large surveys that are being/will be carried out from Paranal, and other instruments that are or will be delivering survey science, such as APEX, ALMA, the AAT, e-ROSITA, LSST, HST, and 4MOST, among others. What's new in Period 105? Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the expected changes in instrumentation offered and procedures for Period 105 given in Sec. 1.1 of the Call for Proposals . Among the items likely to be of most interest to the Australian community are: * New web-based proposal submission tool: Period 105 marks the transition away from the traditional ESOFORM LaTeX proposal file, to a new web-based Phase 1 tool ("p1"). Anyone who has used the current Phase 2 on-line preparation tool p2 will find the interface very similar. Among the many new features on offer are the ability for the PI and Co-Is to edit proposals collaboratively; pull-down menus for selecting instrument options; querying Simbad for target information; and the ability to update submitted proposals right up to the deadline! See the ESO Messenger article for an overview of the new features, and try out the p1demo tool. * No Large Programme proposals accepted in P105: From Period 104, Large Programme proposals are only being accepted once per year during even Periods. * Replacement of seeing constraints with turbulence categories: To homogenise the time allocation process across AO-assisted and non-AO instrument modes, the current seeing constraints in arcseconds are now replaced by seven turbulence categories for all instruments during the Phase 1 proposal preparation and submission. For non-AO instruments, these turbulence categories correspond to upper limits on the seeing, e.g. a turbulence category of 50% corresponds to seeing <0.8 arcseconds. Applicants are encouraged to read the general description of these changes on the Observing Conditions webpage. * Collaboration with ESO scientists: ESO encourages new users to team up with, or seek advice from, members of the community who have submitted successful proposals in the past. Lists of successful Australian PIs can be found on the AAL ESO Forum . Users may also want to consider collaborating with ESO scientists with expertise on the scientific subject of their proposal. PIs interested in this option should send an email to science_p1support at eso.org with a title and abstract of their proposal, at least 2 weeks before the proposal submission deadline. * Visitor focus availability: The Nasmyth A focus of UT1 is available for a Visitor Instrument during the whole of Period 105, while the Cassegrain focus of UT4 will be available during the first months of Period 105. In addition, a visitor focus for an interferometric instrument is available in the VLTI laboratory. Interested users should consult Section 3 of the Call for Proposals. * Students and Visitor Mode: ESO will normally only cover the observing expenses for 1 observer per Visitor Mode run. However there have been cases where ESO has agreed to waive the costs of flights and accommodation within Chile for a student who accompanies their supervisor, provided the student is able to cover the costs for getting to and from Chile. Supervisors awarded observing time at La Silla Paranal Observatory in Visitor Mode are encouraged to contact the Visiting Astronomers section with any request for student support before submitting their Travel Form. ______________________________ Dr. Stuart Ryder Program Manager (Mon, Wed, Fri) Astronomy Australia Ltd. T: +61 (02) 9372 4843 M: +61 (0419) 970834 E: stuart.ryder at astronomyaustralia.org.au W: www.astronomyaustralia.org.au O: c/o AAO, 105 Delhi Rd, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia AAL is committed to equity and diversity and endeavours to create an environment in which every individual is treated with dignity and respect. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These pathfinders have a common aim of untangling galaxy evolution physics, and so it is important that first science results are communicated across various disciplines. This is the main purpose of this second Australia-ESO conference, allowing us to start serious conversations about the future coordination of next-generation galaxy evolution surveys. Key topics to be discussed during the conference include: 1) The baryon cycle in our own Galactic neighbourhood: what we have learned from galactic archaeology, and the interstellar and circumgalactic gas (and its accretion) in the Milky-Way and Magellanic Clouds. 2) The local Universe: the multi-phase baryon mass census (hot, cold, warm medium and stars and stellar halos), the baryon-halo connection, environmental effects on the ISM of galaxies, outflows/inflows locally. 3) Transients: a nascent avenue of learning about galaxy evolution, the intergalactic medium which is expected to grow immensely over the next few years, featuring Fast Radio Bursts, Gravity Waves, Gamma-ray bursts, and others. 4) Galaxies across time: physical processes leading to quenching and their effect on the gas reservoirs of galaxies, angular momentum evolution, and the black hole/galaxy co-evolution. 5) Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation: the census of z>4 galaxies (luminosity functions, dust content, star formation, interstellar medium), QSOs and radio activity, and evolution of the neutral hydrogen content. We will provide childcare support to maximize participation of those with carer responsibilities. Deadline for contributed talks submission is 1st of October. We would appreciate if you can circulate this widely among your colleagues. Best regards, Claudia Lagos (on behalf of the SOC) -- ASTRO 3D Senior Research Fellow Tel:(+61 8) 6488 3677 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research web:www.clagos.com University of Western Australia , 7 Fairway, Crawley, Perth, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trevor.mendel at anu.edu.au Thu Sep 5 15:46:42 2019 From: trevor.mendel at anu.edu.au (Trevor Mendel) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 05:46:42 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?Workshop_announcement=3A_=22Apples_to_oranges=3A?= =?utf-8?q?_a_comparison_of_the_simulated_and_observed_Universe=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: Dear Colleagues , It is our pleasure to announce the workshop ?Apples to oranges: a comparison of the simulated and observed Universe?, which will take place the week of Nov. 18-22nd, 2019 in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The focus of this workshop will be on facilitating a fair and meaningful comparison between simulations and observations spanning sub-galactic, galactic, and halo scales. Our plan is for this meeting to be highly interactive, with several invited talks each day and the remaining time divided between science highlights and less-structured time to focus on developing projects and collaborations. The event will be held at the Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9NwrCjZrzqHrPYZGIWJjOi?domain=oakshotels.com). The registration fee for the workshop is AUD$450, which includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea, and a welcome BBQ dinner on Monday evening. The Oaks Resort offers a range of room options from single rooms (AUD$165/night) to 2/3/4 bedroom Villas (AUD$200-550/night). On-site childcare will be provided. You can find additional information on the website here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/303pCk8vAZtE1koXHV7d_m?domain=jtmendel.wixsite.com. To register your interest, please fill out the following form (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_G1BClxwB5Crp16PIy1yUY?domain=forms.gle) by no later than Wednesday, September 27th. We will then contact you with payment details and information regarding accommodation. Space is limited to around 40 participants. Please get in touch if you have any questions, and we hope to see you all in the Hunter Valley! 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If you are planning to attend, please be sure to register by the end of this week so that we can provide adequate catering: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/P6_zCmOxDQtxDQjziGvO9z?domain=forms.gle Draft agendas (subject to adjustments) and remote connection details are available at this location: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5hKFCnxyErCEjR7vtJBgk_?domain=confluence.csiro.au Please note that the Perth workshop will start an hour later than previously announced, due to local constraints. The workshops will take place: Wednesday, 11 September, 11:30-16:00 AWST: ARRC Auditorium (Perth) Friday, 13 September, 11:00-15:30 AEST: ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre (Sydney) George Heald ________________________________ From: Heald, George (CASS, Kensington WA) Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:12 To: asa at physics.usyd.edu.au Subject: Mid-Term Review: Radio Astronomy Community Consultation Workshops Dear colleagues, As part of the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Decadal Plan for Australian astronomy, we are undertaking a short series of workshops to engage with, and gather input from, the community. These workshops will be hosted in both Perth and Sydney: Wednesday, 11 September, 10:30-15:00 AWST: ARRC Auditorium (Perth) Friday, 13 September, 11:00-15:30 AEST: ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre (Sydney) Workshops will include brief update presentations from key Australian radio astronomy facilities, followed by structured discussion time with a focus on SKA and Pathfinders, and informing the production of a white paper that will be submitted to the MTR Committee and published online. We invite all interested parties to join us in person or remotely. Local logistics and remote connection details will be provided closer to the date. Lunch will be provided. Please register your interest via this webform before Friday, 6 September: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/P6_zCmOxDQtxDQjziGvO9z?domain=forms.gle George Heald George Heald CSIRO Science Leader CASS/Perth ATNF Science Team Leader W https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3NFeCoVzGQinZyrEsVKx8T?domain=people.csiro.au E george.heald at csiro.au T +61 8 6436 8758 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington WA 6151, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.otoole at mq.edu.au Fri Sep 6 14:20:40 2019 From: simon.otoole at mq.edu.au (Simon O'Toole) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 04:20:40 +0000 Subject: [ASA] New Data Central Release next week Message-ID: <1734F9E4-65AD-48A3-8D17-5D7BB5C44EE3@mq.edu.au> We are pleased to announce a new release of the Data Central system (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9bbQCyoNVrc1nqwxUZ3CaV?domain=datacentral.org.au), which will go into production next week. Data Central is part of the AAL-funded Optical Data Centre. This release includes a set of new features, which are outlined below. If you would like to include your data set in Data Central, please contact us. We offer a range of tools to curate and manage data both during and after your observations. Thanks, Simon New Features * Interoperable Cone Search ? search the tables hosted at Data Central, as well as other ASVO nodes for sources around a set of coordinates. * Updated Image Cutout service ? overplot remote source locations on images hosted at Data Central. * Single Object Viewer upgrade: * On the fly on-sky crossmatching enables users to see nearby objects of interest; * IFS 2D Map visualiser; * Spectra available for download; and * Relevant catalogue data displayed. * Updated landing page ? with live statistics (total count AstroObjects, Surveys, Data Releases, AAT observations etc) New Data * Catalogues * ATLAS * 2MASS * RAVE * 2dFGRS * Spectra * GAMA DR2 * Coming soon: 2dFGRS, GAMA DR3, S7 [Data Central] Simon O'Toole ? Senior Research Systems Engineer ? Data Central Project Scientist datacentral.org.au ? Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au Fri Sep 6 16:30:29 2019 From: Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au (Christopher Lidman) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 06:30:29 +0000 Subject: [ASA] AAT Town Hall Meetings Message-ID: <85C7E076-5067-4A30-9CCF-24FFCA068AE4@anu.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, Starting next week and lasting for a period of two weeks, the AAT Council will hold a series of Town Hall Meetings to discuss the future of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). As a member of the ASA and as a potential future user of the AAT, we?d like to encourage you to attend one of these meetings so that you can have your say on the future of the AAT. The discussion at these meetings will focus on, but are not limited to * Future operational models * Future instrumentation * Synergy with other facilities, such as ESO and the LSST The AAT Council has prepared a short discussion paper on current AAT operations and some initial discussion points. These meetings will be followed by a workshop, to be held at the end of October in Sydney. The outcomes from both will then feed into a white paper that will be submitted to the mid-term review of the current astronomy decadal plan. Dates, locations and a list of the local contacts at each location now follow. Zoom is available at all meetings. These meetings will be followed by a workshop, to be held at the end of October in Sydney. The outcomes from both will then feed into a white paper that will be submitted to the mid-term review of the current astronomy decadal plan. Dates, locations and a list of the local contacts at each location now follow. Week 1: September 9-13 Monday 09 September, Perth, ICRAR/UWA Seminar room, 1-3pm, local contact: Luke Davies > Tuesday 10 September, Brisbane, UQ, St Lucia, building 6, room 407,1-2:30pm, local contacts: Brad Carter > and Tamara Davis > Thursday 12 September, Sydney , USyd, A28, School of Physics, Lecture theatre 2, 1-3pm, local contact: Nicholas Scott > Week 2: September 16-20 Monday, 16 September, Canberra, RSAA, CSO building, 10am ? noon, local contact: Sree Oh > Tuesday, 17 September, Hobart, UTas , Auscope Control Room, 4th floor, Physics Building, 12-1:30pm, local contact: Andrew Cole > Wednesday, 18 September, Melbourne, Swinburne VR theatre (AR104), 2-3:30pm, local contact? Chris Blake > AAT Workshop, Sydney, October 31, 2019 (G59+G60, Old Main Building K15, University of New South Wales), local contact: Sarah Brough s.brough at unsw.edu.au I hope to see many of you over the next couple of weeks. Regards, Chris Lidman A/Professor Chris Lidman Director, Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Work: +61-2-6125-0238 Christopher.Lidman at anu.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: