Home
- Seminars and Workshops
- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Location
R1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Building, National Taiwan University
- Speaker Name
Russ Taylor [Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy]
- State
Definitive
- Url
2023-11-16 14:20 - 15:20
Seminar
SuperMIGHTEE: Exploring the Deep GHz Universe with MeerKAT and the GMRT
Abstract
The MeerKAT telescope is the precursor of the Square Kilometre Array mid-frequency dish array to be deployed later this decade on the African continent. MIGHTEE is one of the MeerKAT large survey projects, designed to pathfind SKA key science in cosmology and galaxy evolution. Through a tiered radio continuum deep imaging project including several fields totaling 20 square degrees to microJy sensitivities, MIGHTEE will explore dark matter and large scale structure, the evolution of galaxies, including AGN activity and star formation as a function of cosmic time and environment, the emergence and evolution of magnetic fields in galaxies, and the magnetic counter part to large scale structure of the universe. A joint observing program with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, extends sensitive imaging of the MIGHTHEE fields to below 1 GHz, providing ultra broad-band spectral coverage and allowing unprecedented exploration of the spectral properties and evolution of magnetic fields of objects in the early universe. I will present early results of deep imaging observations with MeerKAT and the GMRT, review some of the technical challenges, and discuss the science outcomes and directions.
