From marc.duldig at utas.edu.au Wed Jun 23 10:58:43 2021 From: marc.duldig at utas.edu.au (Marc Duldig) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:58:43 +0000 Subject: [ASA] FW: Dark & Quiet Skies Meeting Announcement In-Reply-To: <20210622095329.128.21022@iau> References: <20210622095329.128.21022@iau> Message-ID: Dear ASA Members The following email was sent to the ASA Secretaries and we believe it is worthy of passing on to the membership. Regards Marc Duldig Secretary ASA From: Jos? Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2021 7:53 PM To: Marc Duldig Subject: Dark & Quiet Skies Meeting Announcement Since millennia the silent and ordered beauty of the night sky has inspired humankind in all its intellectual and emotional expressions: poetry, philosophy, religion and science. In particular, modern science is deeply indebted to the observation of astronomical phenomena as all its major progresses, from the theory of universal gravitation to general relativity, were stimulated and verified by careful observation of the sky. Today, technological progress, in particular artificial illumination of urban areas, has made it more and more difficult to observe the night sky in its pristine magnificence. Also, remote sites chosen to host the most sophisticated astronomical observatories because of their favourable location, are becoming gradually endangered by light pollution, radio signals interference and artificially induced climatic modifications. More recently, an additional negative impact on the observation of the night sky emerged from visual interference of the mega constellations of artificial satellites in low earth orbit. 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Abstract Submission: Oral and Poster presentation abstracts can now be submitted at the official conference website, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CJ9qCGv0oyC1oNgQJcKrTnS?domain=aip-summer-meeting.com. Key Dates: Abstract submission deadline 15 August 2021 Notification of acceptance 15 September 2021 Early bird registration opens 1 August 2021 Regular registration opens 1 October 2021 Focused Sessions: The Summer Meeting will also hold several Focused Sessions consisting of 3 ? 5 invited talks by eminent speakers on cutting-edge research themes. These Focused Sessions should highlight emerging physics research topics that are gaining importance and are of high interest to the Australian physics community (e.g., Australian space-related initiatives). If you are interested in submitting a Focused Session proposal, please complete this form and submit your proposal by 29th June 2021. Your proposal will be reviewed by the Local Organising Committee and the outcome will be announced by 5th July 2021. For more information about the AIP Summer Meeting, please visit the official conference website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TJ4ECK1DvKT20yJGqC34lPQ?domain=aip-summer-meeting.com. We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane in December 2021. Kind regards, Michael Cowley (on behalf of the SOC) Dr Michael Cowley | Pronouns: He/Him/His Astrophysics Research and Teaching Associate | QUT Astrophysics Research Group Adjunct Research Fellow | USQ Centre for Astrophysics E Block, Level 5, Room 501, Gardens Point Campus Ph 3138 9197 | Mob 0468 321 750 ORCID 0000-0002-4653-8637 | CRICOS No. 00213J I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara people of the lands on which QUT now stands. Paying respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. 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The Deputy/Science Director works closely with the Director to oversee programs and activities within the business unit and to ensure the long-term success and growth of world-leading space & astronomy activity in Australia. The Deputy/Science Director provides scientific vision and cross-disciplinary leadership in areas relevant to their expertise, managing key relationships within and beyond CSIRO. They are a member of the CSIRO Science Council, deputising for the Director as required. Location: Sydney, Canberra or Perth Applications close: 30 July. Find out more at Deputy/Science Director, Space & Astronomy Please get in touch if you are interested or would like to suggest candidates. Regards Dr Douglas Bock FTSE Director Space and Astronomy | CSIRO douglas.bock at csiro.au | +61 2 9372 4300 | +61 457 552 777 (m) Cnr Vimiera & Pembroke Roads, Marsfield NSW 2122 PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710 CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. The information contained in this email may be confidential or privileged. Any unauthorised use or disclosure is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it immediately and notify the sender by return email. Thank you. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO does not represent, warrant and/or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained or that the communication is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. Please consider the environment before printing this email. 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Registration and Abstract Submission Registration: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/fdpCCXLW2mUX3ryBqSVzM6A?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it Abstract Submission: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zGIkCYW8NocLPBJkNU97NRn?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it To submit an abstract you need to open an INDICO Account and login with Indico as the authentication provider. When creating your INDICO account, you will be asked about the event you are attending, and the relevant contact person. Please use the following text: ?HRMOS workshop. INAF Contact: Laura Magrini?. Your account should be activated within one or two working days. Deadline: 8 September 2021 No registration fees Rationale The High Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) is a proposed facility instrument for the ESO?s VLT, following the initial presentation at the VLT 2030 workshop. HRMOS provides a combination of capabilities essential to carry out breakthrough science across a broad range of active research areas from Galactic and Local Group Archaeology to Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanet studies. HRMOS fills a gap in capabilities amongst the landscape of future instrumentation planned for the next decade. The key capability of HRMOS is high spectral resolution (R = 60,000 - 80,000) with multi-object (50-100) capabilities and stability that provides radial velocity precision (~10m/s). Initial designs predict a SNR=30 is achievable within 1hr for mag(AB) = 17-18 depending on resolution. The combination of high resolution and multiplex going to relatively bluer wavelengths (from 380nm), is truly a spectrograph that will push the boundaries of our knowledge and is envisioned as a workhorse instrument in the future. This conference aims to bring together the International scientific community, to propose and discuss science projects where HRMOS will have a strong impact due to its unparalleled capabilities, as well as identifying the areas where it will provide unique synergies with existing and forthcoming large surveys and facilities such as 4MOST, WEAVE, MOONS and the ELTs. This meeting is your opportunity to present your science with HRMOS and join the collaboration to push forward the HRMOS project in preparation for an upcoming White paper call. Format and Contributions Given the current pandemic situation, the meeting will be run online on alternating timezones. 18-19 October will be nominally 9am-1pm CEST, while 20-21 October will be nominally 9am-1pm AEDT. The exact times may change. We are concurrently organising the option for meeting in-person in Firenze, Italy on the 18/19 October, and in Sydney, Australia on the 20/21 October (subject to local laws at the time). The final session on the Friday 22 October will be exclusively online. All presentations will be recorded and made available for the registered participants. Participants are strongly encouraged to submit a short abstract describing the science questions and topics they would like to address with HRMOS. We anticipate a talk length of 20min for contributed presentations. A detailed schedule will be made available closer to the meeting, though we expect to discuss the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics which formed part of the initial science case; new ideas are very much welcome: * Origins of the Heavy elements * Properties of the First Stars * Galactic Archeology at High Spectral Resolution * Exo-planets in Star clusters, Bulge and other Galaxies * Young stars and Doppler Tomography of Magnetic structures * Chemical Evolution of the MW Satellites * Star clusters in High Resolution * Stellar abundances and Chemical tagging * Synergies with current and future facilities The current options for the instrument concept will also be presented and discussed. We invite you to circulate this first announcement among your colleagues. We apologise if you receive this more than once. For any questions, do not hesitate to contact Gayandhi, Sofia or Eline. Best regards, HRMOS Core Science Team Gayandhi De Silva (AAO-Macquarie, Australia), Sofia Randich (INAF-Arcetri, Italy), Eline Tolstoy (Kapteyn, The Netherlands), Laura Magrini (INAF-Arcetri, Italy), Vanessa Hill (OCA, France), Thomas Bensby (Lund, Sweden), Rob Jeffries (Keele, UK), Rodolfo Smiljanic (CAMK/PAN, Poland), Oscar Gonzalez (UK-ATC, UK), ?sa Sk?lad?ttir (INAF-UNIFI, Italy), Nad?ge Largarde (UTINAM, Besan?on, France) ? A/ Prof Gayandhi De Silva Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University 105 Delhi Rd, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia gayandhi.desilva at mq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are interested in attending a Rainbow Dinner in your city, please fill out the following form as soon as possible, ideally by tomorrow (i.e., by 25 June): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6mqsCjZ1N7inkmvZWSWrzYI?domain=forms.gle Please note that we are only asking for your contact information if you are potentially able to help organise a dinner in your city. Best regards, -- Daniel Zucker, on behalf of the IDEA Chapter P.S. Please note that all in-person events will naturally be contingent on whatever local COVID-19 restrictions are in force at the time (those of us in Sydney have our fingers and toes crossed at the moment!). -- Daniel Zucker Associate Professor Macquarie University daniel.zucker at mq.edu.au +61 (02) 9850 4442 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Fri Jun 25 00:14:42 2021 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:14:42 +0000 Subject: [ASA] The Stibbs Lecture 2021 - Dr Jill Tarter Message-ID: ASA members may be interested in the following Lecture: Sydney Institute for Astronomy presents The Stibbs Lecture 2021 delivered by Dr Jill Tarter [The University of Sydney] [Dr Jill Tarter; SETI Institute] Dr Jill Tarter, SETI Institute A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens, Finding Ourselves Thursday 29 July; 4.00pm - 5.30pm (Doors open from 3.30pm) Messel Lecture Theatre, Sydney Nanoscience Hub, University of Sydney Are we alone? Humans have been asking this question throughout history. We want to know where we came from, how we fit into the cosmos, and where we are going. We want to know whether there is life beyond the Earth and whether any of it is intelligent. Since the middle of the twentieth century we have had tools that permit us to embark on a scientific exploration to try to answer this old question. We no longer have to ask the priests and philosophers what we should believe about extra-terrestrial life; we can explore and discover what?s actually out there. Our tools are getting ever better. We have discovered extremophiles in the most unexpected places on this planet and we have discovered that there really are far more planets than stars out there. We haven?t yet found life beyond Earth, but there is currently a debate about the detection of Phosphine in the clouds of Venus, and whether this might imply biology. There is a vast amount of other potentially-habitable real estate to explore beyond our solar system, and there are many plans to do just that. The 21st century will be the century in which we will find some answers, this will be your century. As we look up and look out, we are forced to see ourselves from a cosmic perspective; a perspective that shows us as all the same, all Earthlings. This perspective is fundamental to finding a way to sustain life on Earth for the long future. Register to attend in person Register to attend remotely [Searching the Sky] About the Speaker Jill Tarter is the Emeritus Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her Master?s Degree and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She has spent the majority of her professional career attempting to answer the old human question ?Are we alone?? by searching for evidence of technological civilizations beyond Earth. She served as Project Scientist for NASA?s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Explorers Club, she was named one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2004, and one of the Time 25 in Space in 2012, received a TED prize in 2009, two public service awards from NASA, multiple awards for communicating science to the public, and has been honoured as a woman in technology. She was the 2014 Jansky Lecturer, and received a Genius Award from Liberty Science Center in 2015. She served as President of the California Academy of Sciences 2015-16. Asteroid 74824 Tarter (1999 TJ16) has been named in her honour. In 2018 she was recognized with the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award and the Sir Arthur Clarke Innovator?s Award, and in 2021 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since the termination of funding for NASA?s SETI program in 1993, she has served in a leadership role to design and build the Allen Telescope Array and to secure private funding to continue the exploratory science of SETI. Many people are now familiar with her work as portrayed by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. Her biography Making Contact was written by Sarah Scoles and published in 2017 Important details Registration: Participation can be either remote (via Zoom) or in person (at the Messel Lecture Theatre SNH), select the appropriate option above and please only register once. Registrations close on Wed 28 July at 4pm AEST. Attending in person: Due to COVID restrictions in person attendees will be required to sign into the event on arrival. In order to be granted entry to University of Sydney campuses, you must meet the following conditions of entry: * You are not showing any symptoms of COVID-19; * You have not had contact with a person who has been confirmed with COVID-19 in the past 14 days; * You have reviewed the NSW Government list of COVID case locations, and if you have visited a relevant location have complied with Government instructions particularly as related to testing; * You have not returned from overseas, or any other location the subject of a current NSW Public Health Order in the past 14 days; * You have not been tested for COVID-19 and are awaiting results; * You will follow any relevant COVID-19 Safety Plan requirements advised to you and any reasonable directions of your University host, security staff and/or emergency services. Getting to the venue: For in person attendees, information about parking and directions to Sydney Nanoscience Hub (SNH) are included in the Eventbrite registration. Participant interaction: There will be the opportunity for both in person and on line participants to ask questions at the end of the lecture. On line participants can submit questions via the chat option in the Zoom Webinar. Further information: Please contact stibbs.lecture at sydney.edu.au Further information about the speaker * https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RFqtC3QNPBipVkM7ZCDCZ-C?domain=seti.org https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UZk8C4QOPEiBGVWYrHVGuog?domain=seti.orghttps://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wI2tC5QPXJiZOJKgAf8DPN7?domain=books.google.com Image credits: * Jill Tarter courtesy of Dr Jill Tarter * A boy watches the Milky Way in the sky over the Tatacoa Desert, department of Huila, Colombia courtesy of LUIS ACOSTA/AFP/Getty Images [cid:image004.gif at 01D76957.17DE12E0] [The University of Sydney] Keep in touch [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram] [LinkedIn] [YouTube] Copyright ? 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In addition, under the ongoing ANU host agreement with LCO, at least half of the overall ANU time consists of contributions to LCO Key Projects ( see https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oy-XC4QOPEiBGvJm2fOy6RH?domain=lco.global ). Thus, proposals to support the Key Projects are strongly encouraged, but will be assessed on scientific merit like any other proposal. ANU's time for 2021B will be 100 hours on the 2m telescopes, 200 hours on the 1m telescopes, and 200 hours on the 0.4m telescopes. Note that this access can utilise any of the two 2m telescopes, thirteen 1m telescopes, or ten 0.4m telescopes in the entire LCO global network. See further details at the official LCO CfP at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RuztC5QPXJiZOD0xPuOutUb?domain=lco.global Proposed observations can use any of the three observing modes: standard queue-scheduled, Time Critical, and Rapid Response. All proposals that request Time Critical or Rapid Response time will be technically reviewed by LCO. The proposals must explicitly justify the need for TC/RR time. LCO will work with the PIs to make any changes to the queue/TC/RR allocations if it is determined that the science can be done with less restrictive scheduling modes. Proposals lacking justification will automatically get standard queue-mode observations. Proposals will be assessed on scientific merit by the ANU TAC, taking into account that the Australian PI must be a significant team member. Note that this is not a call for large proposals, and any proposal that appears to compete with a Key Project would need to justify why it is different. A maximum 2 page scientific and technical justification should be sent to lco_proposals at mso.anu.edu.au In addition, list on a separate page: * Proposers and institutions. * Requested telescope and instruments. * Requested allocation in each observing mode (queue/TC/RR) and minimum useful allocation. * If asking for less than 20 hours, if you want to schedule your own observations or if you would like someone else to help. * If asking for more than 50 hours (excluding key project contributions), confirmation that you?re willing to schedule time for minor proposers on their behalf. Accepting this should be a default response. * An estimate of how much time is required beyond this semester. Please contact Christopher Onken if you have any questions about LCO or ANU's access to the network. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.tingay at curtin.edu.au Sat Jun 26 00:29:34 2021 From: s.tingay at curtin.edu.au (Steven Tingay) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:29:34 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Fwd: MWA Project Meeting notice email for external collaborators In-Reply-To: <201414e60b674eccb34d3e4d9dc49c63@MEAPR01MB2455.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com> References: <201414e60b674eccb34d3e4d9dc49c63@MEAPR01MB2455.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, On June 22 and 23 the MWA community took part in an online (virtual) project meeting to share and discuss recent work. In addition to management, operations, and engineering updates, both junior and senior researchers presented a range of talks, covering all of our key science areas: - The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), - Galactic and Extra-galactic (GeG), - Transient signals, from pulsars to SETI and space situational awareness, and - Solar, Heliosphere and Ionospheric (SHI) science. These talks are freely available to watch on our Youtube channel . Day 1 - https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UgCsC1WLPxcMKQLWAFGmhSV?domain=youtu.be Day 2 - https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kpABC2xMQzipAD0y2hBjXiZ?domain=youtu.be Please feel free to distribute around your organisations and networks. Kind regards, The MWA Team -- *************************************************************************************** It is often convenient for me to send emails outside business hours. But I have no expectation of responses outside business hours. *************************************************************************************** If you receive a one line (or even a one word) email from me, please don't read anything into it. I may be busy. I may be on my phone. *************************************************************************************** Professor Steven Tingay (He/Him/His) John Curtin Distinguished Professor Executive Director Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy Curtin University Bentley, Western Australia Australia Deputy Executive Director International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Director Murchison Widefield Array Street address: Brodie Hall building 1 Turner Ave Technology Park Bentley 6102 Western Australia Email: S.Tingay at curtin.edu.au WWW: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GtpFC3QNPBipVrWNghDLkTX?domain=astronomy.curtin.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2jLgC4QOPEiBGwRk2sV8xx1?domain=icrar.org Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 4908 Mobile: +61 (0)401 103635 I acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future traditional custodians and elders of the Nation?s First Peoples and the continuation of their cultural, spiritual and educational practices. I pay particular respect to the traditional owners of the land on which our Perth Campus is located, the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation, and on our Kalgoorlie Campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields. And the Wajarri Yamaji people of the Murchison, the site where we are building the MWA and the SKA. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ilya.mandel at monash.edu Sat Jun 26 20:05:08 2021 From: ilya.mandel at monash.edu (Ilya Mandel) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:05:08 +1000 Subject: [ASA] YITP-OzGrav joint workshop on nuclear astrophysics and black holes Message-ID: <27C8C61B-86C7-4220-B6BC-493AEF79C069@monash.edu> Dear colleagues: We attach the first circular of a nuclear burning in massive stars + binary black hole formation workshop, jointly hosted by the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Japan) and OzGrav on 26-30 July. It will be mostly online but we are also planning to have a local hub at Monash! Best regards, Ryo, Simon & Ilya ===== First Circular ====================================== YITP-OzGrav Workshop "Nuclear burning in massive stars: towards the formation of binary black holes" https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RotoC71R2NTAjA77Pf8mh4p?domain=www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp 26 - 30 July 2021 (can be parts of the week, probably not the entire the week) Kyoto (Japan), but mainly online + Monash U (Australia) ** Room at Monash U (Room G29-30, New Horizons building) ** Free - deadline: 23 July (Fri), but *16 July (Fri)* for abstract submission (online short talk/poster presentations are planned.) - Registration form: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HJlEC81V0PT68644JH1lClS?domain=www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp The growing data set of gravitational-wave observations of binary black-hole mergers makes it possible to determine the physical properties (e.g., masses, binary parameters, and populations) of black holes. This information form gravitational waves provides extra constraints on the stellar evolution of massive stars that form black holes. One key ingredient to model stellar evolution is nuclear reactions, affecting energy generation and nucleosynthesis. The uncertainty of several reaction rates is still significant, which can impact the predictions of stellar evolution. In this workshop, we aim to discuss several aspects of "nuclear burning", focusing on gravitational-wave astronomy, stellar evolution, and nuclear physics. The workshop will be organized jointly between Australia and Japan, but participation from any other countries is very welcome. - Nucleosynthesis and origin of elements - Stellar evolution and explosions - Compact binaries and mergers - Evolution of galaxies - Gravitational wave astronomy - Nuclear astrophysics of stellar burnings - Other related topics P. Ajith (ICTS): Gravitational Wave Theory A. Bahramian (Curtin U): X-Ray Binary Population J. J. Eldridge (U Auckland): Binary Evolution M. Fujii (U Tokyo): Binary BH Formation in star clusters S. Galaudage (Monash U): Gravitational Wave Observation A. Goodwin (Curtin U): X-Ray Bursts A. Heger (Monash U): Stellar Nucleosynthesis W. Horiuchi (Hokkaido U): 12C(a,g)16O Theory T. Kawabata (Osaka U): Triple-alpha Experiment T. Kinugawa (U Tokyo): Pop III Binary Evolution J. Powell (Swinburne U Technology): Core-collapse Supernovae J. Sakstein (U Hawaii): Particle Physics T. Shima (RCNP, Osaka U): 12C(a,g)16O Experiment K. Takahashi (AEI): Stellar Evolution Y. Taniguchi (NIT, Kagawa): 12C + 12C Theory + several more (TBA) R. Hirai (Monash U), K. Ioka (YITP), N. Itagaki (YITP), N. Iwamoto (JAEA), K. Kyutoku (Kyoto U), I. Mandel (Monash U), N. Nishimura (RIKEN), S. Stevenson (Swinburne U of Technology) - YITP (main sponsor) - OzGrav (ARC Centre of excellence for gravitational wave discovery) - Gravitational wave physics and astronomy: Genesis (TBC) - RIBF Theory Forum Feel free to ask via the registration form (website) or e-mail to nobuya.nishimura _at_ riken.jp =====================================================================