William Atkins
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 19:51
Science -
Space
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In fact, ten such projects have already been assigned to the ASKAP telescope by an international panel of astronomers.
The ten projects consist of 363 astronomers from 131 organizations from Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and other places in the world.
One of the selected projects is called the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), which is a deep survey of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.
The EMU project, headed by Dr. Ray Norris, will identify the evolution of star-forming galaxies and the evolution of massive black holes throughout the history of the Universe.
Another project is the Widefield ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). Led by Dr. Baerbel Koribalski and Dr. Lister Staverley-Smith, the project is a survey of galaxies that contain large percentages of neutral hydrogen gas.
Information gathered from the WALLABY project is expected to help astronomers learn more about how galaxies initially form and how they evolve over time.
The CSIRO article states that other projects include studies of
“… variable and transient radio sources, the interstellar medium of our own Galaxy, magnetic fields in space, and pulsars.”
A complete list of the assigned ASKAP projects can be found at: “
ASKAP Survey Science Announcement.”
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