From andrew.hopkins at mq.edu.au Mon Jun 7 15:12:07 2021 From: andrew.hopkins at mq.edu.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 05:12:07 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Maunkea Spectroscopic Explorer Workshop Announcement Message-ID: Dear Australian/Chinese MSE enthusiasts, Thanks to ACAMAR, we are running a workshop focused on MSE (Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer) and other next-generation MOS facilities, aimed at sharing activities and interests in the Australian and Chinese communities, to bring our communities closer together, and enhance our shared work toward making MSE a reality. The workshop will be virtual, held using zoom, over Wed-Fri 25-27 Aug 2021. The timing will be a 3-4 hr window each day during: 10am-2pm Sydney 8am-12pm Perth 8am-12pm Beijing 2pm-6pm Hawaii Depending on interest and how the schedule evolves we may shorten this by an hour (to a 3hr window daily), TBD. The broad format of the workshop is anticipated as follows. Day 1: ? Scope and scene setting by the MSE Project Office and Management Group teams. ? Scientific presentations, and discussion of how to combine Australian and Chinese research contributions, to maximise the scientific impact of MOS facilities. Day 2: ? Technical presentations, discussion of each community?s expertise and opportunities to partner on technical developments. ? Discussion of how to capitalise on each other?s expertise to ensure successful delivery of key technologies required for the facility. Day 3: ? Discussion of pragmatic ways to align the Australian and Chinese interests and areas of expertise to maximise the opportunity for realising the delivery of MSE and related facilities. ? Discussion of funding resources and opportunities, and how to align Chinese and Australian partnership to ensure these can be capitalised on. If you are interested in giving a presentation, please email Laurie Date (ldale at cfht.hawaii.edu) by 30 June with your name, affiliation, talk title and abstract. We are keen to hear technical as well as scientific presentations, along with those that touch on policy/funding/partnership to ensure we consider all avenues in exploring closer engagement. The SOC for the workshop is: Andrew Hopkins Eric Peng Simon Driver Xiaoting Fu Sarah Martell Aaron Robotham Suijian Xue Gongbo Zhao Looking forward to hearing from you soon! Andrew and Eric ? Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Professor of Astronomy Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University 105 Delhi Rd, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia +61 2 9372 4849 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhurley at swin.edu.au Tue Jun 8 14:45:31 2021 From: jhurley at swin.edu.au (Jarrod Hurley) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 04:45:31 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) User Survey 2021 In-Reply-To: References: , <9394ed1d-d0cb-e152-fc87-0eadc8c093ce@clearwater.id.au>, Message-ID: Hi All, We are seeking community feedback on the services provided by the Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) via a short survey (link below). The GWDC is hosted at Swinburne University of Technology alongside the Swinburne node of the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) team that has been providing a generalised data and computing service to the national astronomy community from early 2017. It is funded from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) with support from Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL). The primary aims of the GWDC are to provide the infrastructure, training and support to enable gravitational wave researchers nationally to lead the discovery of events from the latest data on an international scale and to maximise the scientific impact of these discoveries. Data coverage includes the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Virgo detectors, pulsar timing data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and precursor facilities, as well as any related simulation data. The GWDC has been operating for about two years now so we would like to seek feedback from you on how the GWDC has done to date and what it should focus on in the future. Our primary target audience is obviously the gravitational wave research community. However, we would welcome input from any astronomer who thinks they may have a need to interact with gravitational wave data and/or researchers in the future. We are interested in responses from those who have already used GWDC services and those who have not as yet. Please take the time to complete the survey which you can find here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MJ8UC81V0PT6Wyk05TnpsHs?domain=forms.gle We expect it will take about 10 minutes of your time. The survey closes Wednesday June 23rd. Please use gwdc-survey at adacs.org.au if you have any queries related to the survey or encounter a technical issue. Thanks for your help. The GWDC team. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.brough at unsw.edu.au Tue Jun 8 14:44:18 2021 From: s.brough at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Brough) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:44:18 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Vale David Carter In-Reply-To: <21E77791-10BD-4852-AEB0-D5BC73590352@fredwatson.com.au> References: <21E77791-10BD-4852-AEB0-D5BC73590352@fredwatson.com.au> Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, ?It is with sadness that I announce the passing of Professor David Carter (Liverpool John Moores University). Dave made a substantial contribution to Australian astronomy through initiating work on multi-object fibre optic spectroscopy in Australia with a 1981 AAO internal memo simply entitled ?Fibre Optics?.? Together with David Malin, he also discovered ?Shell Galaxies?, or ?Malin-Carter Ellipticals? at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Roger Wood (RGO, Edinburgh) and Professor Mike Bode (Liverpool John Moores University), in collaboration with David?s family have shared the following appreciation of his life: ?It is with great sadness that we report the death of David Carter at the age of 67 at his home in Parkgate, the Wirral, after a brave and uncomplaining fight against a rare form of blood cancer. David will be interred at Blacon cemetery, Chester, on the 10^th ?of June. Unfortunately, restrictions due to COVID mean attendance has to be by invitation only. David asked for any contributions in lieu of flowers to be donated to Chester Zoo in his memory. ?Universally known as Dave, he was born and grew up in Hertfordshire. He went to Hatfield School, an establishment that later formed part of the campus of what is now the University of Hertfordshire. Dave excelled in science at school and gained a place to study physics at Hertford College, Oxford, at the age of 17, graduating from there in 1973. He then moved to Cambridge to undertake a PhD under the supervision of?Craig Mackay, and was awarded his PhD in 1977 for a thesis entitled ?The Structure of Elliptical Galaxies?. ?Observational studies of galaxies remained the main focus of his research for the rest of his career. After a stint as a Departmental Demonstrator at Oxford, he moved to the (then) Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney (1979-1982). Here he met his future wife, Trish, before moving to the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, ANU in Canberra (1982-1987) where two of his three sons, Steve and then Nick, were born. It was while he was in Australia that, together with David Malin, he discovered ?Shell Galaxies?, or ?Malin-Carter Ellipticals?, spending many hours in the Prime Focus cage of the Anglo Australian Telescope in so-doing. In the rest of his research career, he made major contributions to a diverse range of topics on galactic structure and content, with his last major programme being to lead an international consortium using the HST to survey galaxies in the Coma Cluster. ?From Australia, he moved to the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes on La Palma where he continued both his research and his instrument development and observer support roles. It seems that much of the documentation in the control rooms of the INT and WHT still has Dave Carter?s name on it. It was also on La Palma that Dave and Trish?s youngest son, Pete, was born. In 1991, he moved back to the RGO in the UK, ultimately becoming Head of La Palma Support. ?Dave?s expertise and experience made him an ideal candidate for the post of Project Scientist of the pioneering, fully robotic, Liverpool Telescope and he moved with his family to take up the position at Liverpool John Moores University in 1996. Dave rapidly became an indispensable member of the LT team and indeed was a driving force behind several aspects of the development of what ultimately became the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU. He became ARI?s Head of Research and then Professor of Observational Astronomy at the University in 2008. He took early retirement in 2012 to concentrate on his research, his family and his wide range of outside interests. ?Dave was a passionate cricketer, both as a player and someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game. A love he passed on to his sons. He was a great servant of his local community, using his talents and energies as a dedicated local councillor and, together with Trish, the driving force behind a church-led drop-in centre in his local town. He also loved cooking and was notably adventurous in this and his choice of meals, particularly when travelling abroad. ?In summary, Dave was a cheerful, enthusiastic and very gifted man who went out of his way to help others. He was also extremely loyal to the institutions in which he worked, to the friends he made and the colleagues he met along the way. He will be sorely missed by all of those who had the privilege to know him.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adelle.wright at science.org.au Wed Jun 9 10:55:41 2021 From: adelle.wright at science.org.au (Adelle Wright) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 00:55:41 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Deadline extended: Call for nominations - IAU National Outreach Coordinators for Australia (deadline 20/6/21) Message-ID: Deadline extended to June 20th 2021 --- The Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Astronomy is currently seeking expressions of interest (EOI) to serve as Australia's National Outreach Coordinators (NOCs) for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach. The IAU NOCs are national-level representatives for the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO). Members of the network act as a point-of-contact for astronomy outreach for a country or territory. The NOCs (1) implement the IAU outreach initiatives at the national level, (2) disseminate information nationally, and (3) bridge the IAU with local/national communities. In return, the NOCs have the chance to 1) apply to a dedicated funding scheme for the NOCs; 2) represent the IAU at the outreach level in Australia, and 3) access to tailored support and resources provided by the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach in their annual plans. Responsibilities and time commitment: . Attending the NOCs meetings (regional and global) - once every two months; . Sharing updates of the NOC-related activities a minimum of once per month; . Answering emails from the national community; . Deliver an Annual Report and an Annual Plan; . Join in at least three activities presented in the IAU-outreach Annual Plan. The term of appointment will be from August 2021 to August 2024. To apply, please send a (i) copy of your CV and (ii) brief statement of interest to icsu at science.org.au by Sunday June 20th 2021. If you have any questions about the role, please contact vkilborn at swin.edu.au. 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The ODC is an AAL-funded collaboration between Data Central and SkyMapper to provide optical and infrared data to the community, but it can also work with multi-wavelength data. We?re interested in the data sets you?d like to see in the ODC and the tools and services you need to better do your research. The survey can be found at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RIsTCvl1rKi7v42D6iQlO7x?domain=surveymonkey.com and it will close on Wednesday 16 June at 17:00 AEST. Thanks! Simon Begin forwarded message: From: Simon O'Toole > Subject: [ASA] Optical Data Centre User Requirements Survey Date: 26 May 2021 at 12:31:10 pm AEST To: "ASA at mailman.sydney.edu.au" > Hi everyone, We are planning the next phase of the Optical Data Centre, which is an AAL-funded initiative to provide optical and infrared data to the community, along with the tools to access and analyse them. We would like to invite you to take part in our Optical Data Centre User Requirements survey, which should take around five minutes to complete. This survey will help to shape our future direction, including the datasets we host and services that we develop and deploy. The survey can be found at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RIsTCvl1rKi7v42D6iQlO7x?domain=surveymonkey.com Thank you! Simon [Data Central] Simon O'Toole ? Head of Data & IT ? Data Central Project Scientist datacentral.org.au ? Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University ? _______________________________________________ ASA mailing list ASA at mailman.sydney.edu.au Change membership status or contact information via ASA's Edit Membership page https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_x8dCyojxQTrYJ0lMuRznRa?domain=asa.wildapricot.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Rob.Sharp at anu.edu.au Thu Jun 10 09:29:15 2021 From: Rob.Sharp at anu.edu.au (Rob Sharp) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:29:15 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with ELTs (20-24 Sep 2021) - Second Announcement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Morning all, I would like to draw your attention to this ELT spectroscopy meeting to be held in Oxford, with free registration for on-line participants. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 16th June. Details below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with ELTs: Second announcement 20th - 24th September 2021, University of Oxford & Online https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y47TCWLVXkU50xPYEs6NOi1?domain=elt2020.web.ox.ac.uk Registration open & abstract submission by *16th June 2021* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We invite registration and abstract submission for the workshop ?Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with Extremely Large Telescopes? (20-24th September 2021). The deadline to submit abstracts for oral contributions closes on 16th June 2021. Rationale: The forthcoming generation of Extremely Large Telescope (ELTs) will reach unprecedented spectroscopic sensitivity coupled with high angular resolution in the near infrared. This workshop will bring together the international astronomical community to explore the transformational science that the spectroscopic instrument suites of the ELTs (GMT, TMT and ELT) will achieve. High resolution simulations have played a key role in the development of the instrument science cases providing a quantifiable means to determine feasibility and to predict the scientific outcomes that can be achieved. By bringing together observers, modelers and theoreticians, with interests ranging from exoplanets to cosmology, the goals of the workshop are to: - explore the spectroscopic capabilities of the first?light instrument suites of the ELTs identifying synergies and complementarities between them. - encourage development of ELT science cases including preparatory projects on existing telescopes. - provide hands?on experience using the HARMONI simulator (H-SIM). - encourage collaboration and transfer of expertise between the instrument teams and the wider community. - explore synergies with other facilities. The meeting will set the stage for the community to plan and coordinate ELT science programmes and pre-cursor observations, making use of quantitative estimates of what the ELTs can achieve. Registration and Abstract Submission: We welcome registration and abstract submission at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kQ_TCXLW2mUXmGqNQCVOLVo?domain=elt2020.web.ox.ac.uk. Abstracts for talks should be submitted by 16th June 2021 (revised), but poster contributions will be accepted beyond this. Highly ranked submissions will be selected as 'highlight talks'. We particularly encourage Early Career Researchers to attend the workshop. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may mean that the workshop will take place only online or in a hybrid model of online plus some in-person participation. We will only know at the end of August whether any in person attendance can be allowed. Any in-person attendance will be by invitation due to the small number of attendees permitted. Participants are advised not to book any travel or accommodation at this time. There will be no registration fee for online participation in this meeting. In person attendees (if allowed), will be asked to contribute towards local catering costs. Further information can be found at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y47TCWLVXkU50xPYEs6NOi1?domain=elt2020.web.ox.ac.uk/ or please email elt at physics.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation in the workshop! The SOC: Niranjan Thatte & Aprajita Verma (co-chairs), Santiago Arribas, Roland Bacon, Chris Evans, Alan Fitzsimmons, Thierry Fusco, Melissa Graham, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Mario Mateo, Evencio Mediavilla, Simon Morris, Suzanne Ramsay, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Rob Sharp, Adrianne Slyz, Gillian Wright, Shelley Wright, Miguel Pereira-Santaella, Matthias Tecza. From matthew.colless at anu.edu.au Thu Jun 10 10:54:32 2021 From: matthew.colless at anu.edu.au (Matthew Colless) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:54:32 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Two faculty positions open at RSAA Message-ID: <03296DFB-BDE3-4266-A951-5461BE2509D6@anu.edu.au> The ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics is seeking to recruit two continuing Fellow/Associate Professor/Professor faculty positions. Classification: Academic Level C (Fellow) or D (Associate Professor) or E (Professor) ? 2 positions available Salary package: $119,844 ? $187,079 (AUD) per annum plus 17% superannuation Term: Full time, Continuing We are seeking to appoint two outstanding academic leaders with proven track records who will play a leading role in all aspects of research and teaching, including setting research and teaching agendas, ensuring ongoing funding, promoting the graduate student program, and driving a strong impact and innovation culture. Candidates in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics will be considered on their merits, with the primary criterion for selection being academic excellence. To support the identified areas of research focus for the School, preference will be given to candidates with a demonstrated track record and active research program in the fields of stellar physics, Galactic astronomy, cosmology and radio astronomy. Female candidates are strongly encouraged: at least one of these two positions will be awarded to a woman. Details of the positions can be found on the ANU Jobs website (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IcTpCwV1vMfGoPQ1miVOgvT?domain=jobs.anu.edu.au) and on the AAS Job Register (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4FcrCxngwOf1ZB0AVCvsHxd?domain=jobregister.aas.org). 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Proposals should be emailed as a single file in PDF format to: traoprop at kasi.re.kr ============================== The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) invites proposals for the Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) 14-meter telescope for the 2021 Fall - 2022 Spring season. Proposal candidates should submit up to three pages of scientific and technical justifications (including figures, tables, and references) in addition to their Proposal Cover Sheet in English using the latex templates (form here): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-16EC5QPXJiZAwxALuzPSJ9?domain=radio.kasi.re.kr There are two categories of proposals for the 2021-2022 observing season. 1. General Program (GP): single-year observing program with a telescope time of up to 300 hours 2. Key Science Program (KSP): multi-year observing program with a telescope time of 400 hours per year, for up to three years TRAO supports multi-beam spectroscopy observations (4 x 4 array: SEQUOIA-TRAO) at a frequency range of 85 - 115.6 GHz. The TRAO system supports single-sideband observations for position-switched or OTF observations. The backend has two spectral windows controlled independently, each window with 4096 channels in a 62.5 MHz bandwidth. In addition, a single-pixel wide-band (2 GHz) spectrometer is available. Proposal candidates should consult the TRAO Status Report for additional technical specifications: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1gvSC6XQ4LfrXZ1XYi6IC94?domain=radio.kasi.re.kr TRAO has a shared-risk remote observing mode available. However, inexperienced users are advised to do the observations on the site. Outside (non-KASI) PIs who intend to use the remote observing mode should specify local collaborators in the proposal. 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