superMIGHTEE Collaboration
Kruger National Park
05 – 07 June 2019
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SUPERMIGHTEE is a collaboration between the MeerKAT MIGHTEE project and colleagues at NCRA-TIFR in India to co-observe the MIGHTEE deep fields with the upgraded GMRT from 250-850 MHz. With interferometer baselines almost four times larger than MeerKAT, the uGMRT offers similar angular resolution and sensitivity at 400 and 700 MHz as MeerKAT at L and S band. The combined MeerKAT-uGMRT data set will thus provide full-Stokes information on the microJy source population over an extremely broad band, from 250 MHz to 2.5 GHz, at resolution of a few arcseconds. This unprecedented data set will have a profound impact on our understanding of how AGN and star-forming galaxies evolve over cosmic time, as functions of stellar mass and environment; how the Universe’s neutral hydrogen evolves, turns into stars after moving through the molecular phase, and/or fuels AGN activity; and how cosmic magnetic fields originate and evolve in clusters, filaments and galaxies.
This joint project, called superMIGHTEE, evolved from a series of joint workshops sponsored by an Indian DST and South African NRF bilateral Indo-South African Flagship program in Astronomy. The next workshop in this series will take place at Kruger National Park from 05 – 07 June 2019.
Topics to be covered at the workshop include:
- Update on observations and data from uGMRT and MeerKAT
- Data processing and technical challenges for high dynamic range imaging and joint analysis of data from uGMRT and MeerKAT over the entire band
- New Machine Learning, analytics algorithms and Visualization Techniques
- Joint scientific projects with the data
- Project planning and development.
Should you have any queries regarding the conference kindly e-mail Nicky Walker at admin@idia.ac.za.
Scientific Organising Committee:
Prof. Russ Taylor (IDIA)
Prof. Ishwara-Chandra (NCRA-TIFR)
Prof. Dharam Vir Lal (NCRA-TIFR)
Venue and Logistics
The workshop will be held at the Protea Hotel, Marriot, Kruger Gate, Skukuza Kruger National Park. From the funds we have available from the bilateral grant we are able to pay conference fees for all participants. This covers all meals from 04 – 07 June 2019, including the gala dinner on the 06th, and the use of the conference facilities. We are also able to cover the costs of accommodation for all student participants (based on two students per room).
Programme
Wednesday, 5 June 2019
Overview of the project and data in-hand
09:15 – 09:45 Overview and status of superMIGHTEE project
Russ Taylor
09:45 – 10:15 Upgraded GMRT: An overview and early science results
Dharam Lal
10:15 – 10:35 Deep imaging using uGMRT: XMM-LSS field
Ishwara-Chandra C.H.
10:35 – 10:55 Deep imaging at 150 MHz using GMRT
Srikrishna Sekhar
11:00 – 11:15 Tea / Coffee break
11:15 – 11:30 Presentation and discussion of current MeerKAT MIGHTEE data products
Russ Taylor
11:30 – 12:15 Tutorial on working with data on the ILIFU cloud and open visualization and exploration of the data
Russ Taylor
12:15 – 12:45 Discussion
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Broad-band science
14:30 – 14:50 Galaxy clusters
Kenda Knowles
14:50 – 15:10 Results from uGMRT band-3 pipeline analysis of clusters
Sinenhlanhla Precious Sikhosana
15:10 – 15:30 Galaxy clusters in the MIGHTEE fields
Abhik Ghosh
15:30 – 15:50 Infra-red faint radio sources: A new population of high-z AGN
Ishwara-Chandra C.H.
15:50 – 16:15 Tea / Coffee break
16:15 – 16:35 Broad band spectra of faint sources
Jordan Collier
16:35 – 16:55 Infra-red faint radio sources: A new population of high-z AGN
Ishwara-Chandra C.H.
16:55 – 17:15 Deep 610 observations of ELIAS-N1 Field
Emmanuel Ocran
17:15 – 17:35 Polarization of faint sources
Russ Taylor
17:35 – 17:50 Alignments of radio sources
Russ Taylor
17:50 – 18:00 Discussion
Thursday, 6 June 2019
00:00 – 12:00 Game drive
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break
Data processing challenges and exploration of data
14:00 – 14:20 Pipelines for calibration and imaging
Jordan Collier / Srikrishna Sekhar
14:20 – 14:40 High dynamic range imaging
Russ Taylor
14:40 – 15:00 High sensitivity polarimetry
Srikrishan Sekhar
15:00 – 15:15 Progress report on GMRT AW-projection
Dharam Lal
15:15 – 15:45 (i) The issue of the ionosphere, and
(ii) issues of combining MeerKAT and uGMRT data
Russ Taylor
15:45 – 16:00 Discussion
16:00 – 16:15 Tea / Coffee break
16:15 – 16:35 Multi-wavelength counterparts – updates from HELP
Mattia Vaccari
16:35 – 16:55 Multi-wavelength visualization tool
Matt Prescott
16:55 – 17:15 Machine learning for radio source characterization
Chaka Mofokeng
17:15 – 17:35 Unsupervised morphological classification in EN1-wide
Mdhluli Sibusiso
17:35 – 17:55 Machine learning approaches to the multi-wavelength sky
Fangxia An
17:55 – 18:15 Statistical approach to automated detection of multi-component radio sources
Jeremy Smith
18:15 – 18:30 Discussion
Conference Dinner
Friday, 7 June 2019
Collaboration plans
Science with existing data – follow up to ELIAS-N1 busy days
09:15 – 09:30 List of project plans from first busy days meeting
Russ Taylor / Ishwara Chandra C.H.
09:30 – 09:40 Preliminary results from clusters in EN1-wide
Ishwara Chandra C.H.
09:30 – 12:30 Discussion
(i) superMIGHTEE MoU with MIGHTEE
(ii) Plans for proposal for upcoming 15 July 2019 uGMRT deadline
(iii) Plans for proposal for open call using MeerKAT
(iv) superMIGHTEE – big project or dribble of smaller observing proposals
12:30 – 12:45 Closing remarks
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Presentations