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SPARCS X – 2021
15 – 19 November 2021
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SPARCS 2021 Programme
The SPARCS 2021 “Capturing Science from the Pathfinder Survey Data” meeting will be held on 15-19 of November. The meeting will be hosted on zoom and will consist of two sessions per day, separated to accommodate different time zones. Updates on the programme will be added as they are available.
We welcome talks on a broad range of topics from science results to imaging and analysis techniques. Some submitted talk topics to include:
- Survey and telescope descriptions and updates
- Source finding and anomaly detection with machine learning
- Cosmology from large area surveys
- Surveys of nearby galaxies and the Magellanic clouds
- Odd Radio Circles
- Challenges from beams of interferometers
- Giant Radio Galaxies
- Source counts and star formation history
- Stacking techniques
- Clusters and filaments
Join the SPARCS Slack Channel to stay up-to-date with the meeting preparations.
Schedule
| Monday – Times | Monday – Talks | |
| Session 1 – 07:00 UTC | ||
| Time (UTC) | Speaker | Title |
| 07:00 – 07:10 | Tessa Vernstrom | Intro/Welcome |
| Topic – Surveys | ||
| 07:10 – 07:30 | Andrew Hopkins | The EMU Survey |
| 07:30 – 07:50 | Matt Jarvis | The MIGHTEE Survey |
| 07:50 – 08:10 | Robert Braun | SKA update |
| 08:10 – 08:30 | Natasha Hurley-Walker | The GaLactic and Extragalactic MWA All-Sky eXtended (GLEAM-X) Survey |
| 08:30 – 08:40 | BREAK | |
| 08:40 – 08:55 | Xiang Zhang | The POlarised GLEAM-X Survey (POGS-X): First results |
| 08:55 – 09:15 | Ishwara Chandra C.H. | Continuum Surveys with upgraded GMRT |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Catherine Hale | The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Alec Thomson | SPICE-RACS: Spectra and Polarization In Cutouts of Extragalactic sources from RACS |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Yuanming Wang | A Pilot Fast Continuum Imaging Survey with ASKAP |
| Session 2 – 15:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Surveys | ||
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Tom Muxlow | Latest results from the e-MERLIN/VLA e-MERGE deep radio survey of GOODS-N and e-MERLIN+EVN observations of AGN systems in the Northern SPARCS Reference Field. |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Betsey Adams | The Apertif Imaging Surveys |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Mark Lacy | The VLA Sky Survey and science-ready data products |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Tim Shimwell | The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey |
| 16:20 – 16:35 | BREAK | |
| 16:35 – 16:55 | Sarrvesh Sridhar | The MPIfR Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS) with MeerKAT |
| 16:55 – 17:10 | Preshanth Jagannathan | The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) : An Overview |
| 17:10 – 17:25 | Alexander Kutkin | Continuum source catalog for the first Apertif data release. |
| 17:25 – 17:40 | Ian Heywood | The VLA Frontier Fields Survey |
| 17:40 – 17:55 | Eric Faustino Jiménez-Andrade | The VLA 10GHz Survey of GOODS-N: current status and plans for the data release |
| Tuesday -Times | Tuesday – Talks | |
| Session 1 – 07:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Surveys | ||
| 07:00 – 07:15 | Gulay Gurkan | Science updates from the GAMA 23 ASKAP survey |
| 07:15 – 07:30 | Joseph Callingham | V-LoTSS: The deepest and widest low-frequency circularly polarised survey |
| 07:30 – 07:45 | Aishrila Mazumder | A 325 MHz Survey of the Lockman Hole Field using the GMRT |
| Topic – Other (ORCs, planets, etc) | ||
| 07:45 – 08:00 | Ray Norris | The puzzle of ORCs |
| 08:00 – 08:15 | Peter Macgregor | An Unusual Pair of Odd Radio Circles |
| 08:15 – 08:30 | Gary Segal | Detecting complex observations in ASKAP pilot survey data |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | BREAK | |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Sarvesh Mangla | Exploring equatorial ionosphere using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Barnali Das | Unravelling the mystery of Main sequence Radio Pulse emitters |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Fangxia An | MeerKAT+LOFAR+GMRT+VLA+JVLA: Radio spectral properties at 150–5000MHz of star-forming galaxies |
| Topic – Machine Learning | ||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Kieran Luken | Radio Galaxy Redshift Estimation using Machine Learning |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Nikhel Gupta | Discovery of new circular and peculiar radio sources with ASKAP using Machine Learning |
| Session 2 – 15:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Machine Learning | ||
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Samira Rezaei | DECORAS: detection and characterization of radio-astronomical sources using deep learning |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Michelle Lochner | Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data using Machine Learning |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Soumen Deb | Detection of variable sources in the Northern SPARCS reference field with Machine Learning |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Rodrigo Carvajal | Using ensemble Machine Learning to predict high-redshift Radio Galaxy detections. |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | BREAK | |
| Topic -Tools, Methods, Pipelines | ||
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Joshua Marvil | EMUcat: The EMU Value-added Catalog |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Bonny Barkus | Cross-Identification for Radio Surveys using Ridgelines |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Simone Riggi | Source analysis services for the SKA and precursors |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Jelle Mes | A novel vocabulary for the development of cross-identification techniques |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Eliab Malefahlo | Stacking the presence of confusion |
| Wednesday – Times | Wednesday – Talks | |
| Session 1 – 07:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – AGN | ||
| 07:00 – 07:15 | Michael Brown | Are all very massive ellipticals radio AGNs? |
| 07:15 – 07:30 | Stas Shabala | Hydrodynamic simulations of the radio galaxy lifecycle |
| 07:30 – 07:45 | Kat Ross | A Scintillating Survey: Spectral Variability with the MWA and ATCA |
| 07:45 – 08:00 | Guillaume Drouart | The genesis of the first sample of radio loud AGN in the EoR: a candidate at z~8 |
| 08:00 – 08:15 | Velibor Velovic | Critical examination of Agn Jets of NGC 2663 |
| 08:15 – 08:30 | BREAK | |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Silpa Sasikumar | Understanding radio outflows in radio-quiet and radio-intermediate AGN |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Miranda Yew | The Fanaroff/RIley classification with the G23 field |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Rubinur Khatun | Origin of Kpc-scale radio structure in Seyfert galaxies using GMRT observations |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Emmanuel Ocran | The evolution of the Low-frequency radio AGN population |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Veeresh Singh | Remnant radio galaxies in deep fields |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Ben Quici | Modelling remnant radio galaxies in SKA precusor era |
| Session 2 – 15:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Star Forming Galaxies | ||
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Rachel Cochrane | Star-forming galaxies in three LOFAR deep fields |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Akriti Sinha | Studying star-formation in Radio Deep Field using uGMRT |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Hengxing Pan | Measuring the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation below the detection threshold |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Isabella Prandoni | New constraints on the faint radio source population from LOFAR |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Lucia Marchetti | MeerKAT 1.28 GHz Continuum Study of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere:MeerLIRGs |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | BREAK | |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Jim Condon | Source Counts Spanning Eight Decades of Flux Density |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Allison Matthews | The Cosmic star-formation history measured at 1.4 GHz |
| 17:10 – 17:25 | Sarah Leslie | Capturing the radio SED of high-z starburst galaxies by combining deep pathfinder surveys |
| Topic – Galactic and Magellanic | ||
| 17:25 – 17:40 | Russell Shanahan | THOR’s perspective on magnetism in the inner Galaxy |
| 17:40 – 17:55 | Michael Rugel | THOR-GC: An extension of THOR to the Galactic Center |
| Thursday – Times | Thursday – Talks | |
| Session 1 – 07:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Galactic & Magellanic | ||
| 07:00 – 07:15 | Miroslav Filipovic | Multi-frequency surveys of Magellanic Clouds |
| 07:15 – 07:30 | Francesco Cavallaro | The Impact of SKA on Galactic Science: a glimpse at the Galactic plane with SKA precursors |
| 07:30 – 07:45 | Adriano Ingallinera | Characterising supernova remnants with the SKA precursors |
| 07:45 – 08:00 | Fatemeh Tabatabaei | Structure and energetic of the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies |
| 08:00 – 08:15 | BREAK | |
| Topic- Polarisation | ||
| 08:15 – 08:30 | Rikut Omae | Effects of Depolarizing Intervening Galaxies on Background Radio Emission |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Anna Berger | Statistical analysis of faint polarised sources using Apertif |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Paddy Leahy | Rotation Measure maps of Radio Galaxies with ASKAP |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Björn Adebahr | Polarised sources in the Apertif SVC fields |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Lennart Heino | Polarisation of Micro-Jansky Radio Sources |
| Topic -Tools, Methods, Pipelines | ||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Jordan Collier | The MeerKAT toolbelt: a waist of data |
| 09:45 – 10:05 | Peter Quinn | The SKA Regional Centres |
| Session 2 – 15:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – AGN | ||
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Beatriz Mingo | AGN accretion mode versus radio morphology: news from the LOFAR Deep Fields |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | James Peltey | A larger picture of radio emission in quasars with outflows |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Rohit Kondapally | Cosmic evolution of jet-mode AGN in the LOFAR Deep Fields |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Pranav Kukreti | Mrk 273 : A LOFAR and APERTIF view |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Jeroen Stil | Probing the circumgalactic gas of AGN host galaxies with SKA pathfinder surveys |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | BREAK | |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Heinz Andernach | Discovery of 178 Giant Radio Galaxies in 1059 deg2 of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey at 888 MHz |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Pratik Dabhade | Search & Analysis of GRGs with Associated Nuclei (SAGAN), updates and its scope with the SKA |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Imogen Whittam | Radio galaxies in the MIGHTEE survey |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Tom Franzen | The GLEAM 200 MHz Local Radio Luminosity Function for AGN and Star-forming Galaxies |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Marisa Brienza | Filamentary AGN remnant radio emission in the SKA era |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Etienne Bonnassieux | Resolved Spectral Properties of 3C295 with LOFAR-VLBI |
| Friday – Times | Friday – Talks | |
| Session 1 – 07:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – Clusters & Cosmic Web | ||
| 07:00 – 07:15 | Dharam Lal | A low-frequency survey of member galaxies associated with the Coma cluster |
| 07:15 – 07:30 | Chris Riseley | Fossils, relics, and remnants in Abell 3266: cluster archaeology with ASKAP-EMU and the ATCA |
| 07:30 – 07:45 | Kenda Knowles | The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey |
| 07:45 – 08:00 | Andrea Botteon | The deepest images at the lowest frequencies of a galaxy cluster |
| 08:00 – 08:15 | Swarna Chatterjee | Studying merging cluster with uGMRT |
| 08:15 – 08:30 | BREAK | |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Kamlesh Rajpurohit | Unprecedented view of the filamentary radio relic in Abell 2256 at low frequencies |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Tessa Vernstrom | Stacking Filaments of the Cosmic Web |
| Topic – Cosmology & Dark Matter | ||
| 09:00 – 09:15 | David Parkinson | Cosmology from the large-scale continuum surveys of EMU-PS and RACS |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Marco Regis | Searching for WIMPs in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Yin-Zhe Ma | Constraining Axion decay with MeerKAT UHF band data |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Szymon Nakoneczny | Cosmological inference from LOFAR LoTSS DR2 and CMB cross-correlation |
| Session 2 – 15:00 UTC | ||
| Topic – AGN | ||
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Leah Morabito | AGN science with sub-arcsecond imaging at MHz frequencies |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Eleni Vardoulaki | Classification games at the high-resolution and sensitivity radio universe |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Vijay Mahatma | High resolution imaging of 3C radio galaxies at low frequencies |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | BREAK | |
| Topic – Technical & Calibration | ||
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Jack Radcliffe | The challenges associated with the beams of interferometers a warning to the SKA-era |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Helga Denes | Characterising the Apertif primary beam response |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Preshanth Jagannathan | Modelling Antenna Aperture Illuminations & Image Plane Leakage Corrections |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Srikrishna Sekhar | Polarization Calibration for MIGHTEE |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Viral Parekh | Third-generation calibration for MeerKAT observations |
| 17:15 | Closing & summary |