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🌌 Captivating keynote by Sarah Pearce at #IWOMP24! 🌌
Her presentation, featuring this breathtaking image of the Milky Way captured by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, beautifully illustrated the intersection of astronomy and parallel computing. Truly inspiring to see how #OpenMP and #HPC are driving discoveries in the cosmos! ✨
#MilkyWay #Astronomy #ParallelComputing #SARAO #HPC #Embedded @ska_africa
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MPIfR: Der MeerKAT-Absorptionslinienatlas
Mit MeerKAT-Daten hat ein internationales Team unter Beteilignug von MPIfR-Forschern den bisher größten Katalog von Radioquellen aus einer Himmelsdurchmusterung zusammengestellt. Eine Pressemeldung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/mpifr-der-meerkat-absorptionslinienatlas/
3.9.2024
#Astronomie #Himmelsdurchmusterung #IUCAA #Kontinuumskatalog #MALS #MeerKAT #MPIfR #Radioastronomie #Radiodipol #SARAO
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MPIfR: Zehn neue Neutronensterne für Terzan 5
Entdeckung und Untersuchung mehrerer seltener und ungewöhnlicher Pulsare in einem dichten Sternhaufen mit Hilfe von MeerKAT/Südafrika und dem Green-Bank-Teleskop/USA. Eine Pressemeldung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/mpifr-zehn-neue-neutronensterne-fuer-terzan-5/
16.7.2024
#AEI #Astronomie #COMPACT #Doppelstern #GreenBank #Kugelsternhaufen #MeerKAT #MillisekundenPulsar #MPIfR #Neutronenstern #Pulsar #Radioastronomie #SARAO #Terzan5 #TRAPUM
Entdeckung und Untersuchung mehrerer seltener und ungewöhnlicher Pulsare in einem dichten Sternhaufen mit Hilfe von MeerKAT/Südafrika und dem Green-Bank-Teleskop/USA. Eine Pressemeldung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie, Bonn. Quelle: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie 16. Juli 2024. 16. Juli 2024 – Ein internationales Team unter der Leitung von Forschenden des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gravitationsphysik, des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie und des […]
The first antenna of MeerKAT+ was handed over in the Karoo region in South Africa.
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Leichtestes Schwarzes Loch oder schwerster Neutronenstern?
Das MeerKAT-Teleskop entdeckt ein rätselhaftes Objekt an der Grenze zwischen Schwarzen Löchern und Neutronensternen. Eine Pressemeldung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/leichtestes-schwarzes-loch-oder-schwerster-neutronenstern/
18.1.2024
#Astronomie #Kugelsternhaufen #MeerKAT #MPIfR #Neutronenstern #NGC1851 #PSRJ05144002E #Pulsar #SARAO #SchwarzesLoch #TRAPUM
Living in #SouthAfrica can sometimes get a little trying, as things often seem to not be going forward. #MeerKat and #SARAO provide a wonderful world leading change to that narrative, facilitating truly cutting edge science with the #ska
Thank you.
Attached: 1 image Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars 🆕➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1112157/lightest-black-hole-or-heaviest-neutron-star “When we looked at Hubble images of NGC 1851, we saw nothing at that position.” (Prajwal Voraganti Padmanabh, postdoc at @mpi_grav Hannover) Pic: @MPIfR_Bonn; Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl) #MeerKAT #TRAPUM #Pulsar #BlackHole #Astrophysics #Astronomy
in the #arXiv
The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey
... with new insights on what's lurking in the Zone of Avoidance:
⭐️ The Vela Supercluster
⭐️ The Great Attractor
⭐️ The Local Void
by Sharmila Goedhart and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07275
#sarao #meerkat #ska #ska_africa #survey #zoneofavoidance #galaxies #velasupercluster #greatattractor #localvoid #milkyway #galaxy #cosmography #map #maps #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #southafrica
We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane (251°$\le l \le$ 358°and 2°$\le l \le$ 61°at $|b| \le 1.5°$). SMGPS is the largest, most sensitive and highest angular resolution 1 GHz survey of the Plane yet carried out, with an angular resolution of 8" and a broadband RMS sensitivity of $\sim$10--20 $μ$ Jy/beam. Here we describe the first publicly available data release from SMGPS which comprises data cubes of frequency-resolved images over 908--1656 MHz, power law fits to the images, and broadband zeroth moment integrated intensity images. A thorough assessment of the data quality and guidance for future usage of the data products are given. Finally, we discuss the tremendous potential of SMGPS by showcasing highlights of the Galactic and extragalactic science that it permits. These highlights include the discovery of a new population of non-thermal radio filaments; identification of new candidate supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae and planetary nebulae; improved radio/mid-IR classification of rare Luminous Blue Variables and discovery of associated extended radio nebulae; new radio stars identified by Bayesian cross-matching techniques; the realisation that many of the largest radio-quiet WISE HII region candidates are not true HII regions; and a large sample of previously undiscovered background HI galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance.