Mapping Interstellar Gas Clouds: NANTEN2 in 2013

Speaker: Graeme Wong

Affiliation: University of Western Sydney

Time: Monday 22/04/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).

Abstract: UWS is part of a consortium to operate a submillimetre-wave telescope in the high desert of the Andes in Chile, NANTEN2. NANTEN2 is designed to make maps of the gas clouds that lie throughout the Galaxy, and which are the sites of formation of new stars and planets. These clouds range from cold dark environments close to the Earth, which form stars like the Sun, to Giant Molecular Clouds some thousands of parsecs away, which form the giant stars that drive the evolution of matter in the universe. We will present the scientific background to the project, the telescope itself and the research programme that we intend to carry out with it in 2013 and beyond.

Biography: To come.