Working Group Report to C 40 IAU General Asssembly August 6 2015 Honolulu HI Ken Kellermann NRAO Outline Goals of the HRA WG 20122015 Triennial Report Deceased radio astronomers Conferences ID: 216382
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Historical Radio AstronomyWorking Group
Report to C 40IAU General AsssemblyAugust 6, 2015Honolulu, HI
Ken Kellermann
NRAOSlide2Outline
Goals of the HRA WG 2012-2015 Triennial ReportDeceased
radio astronomersConferencesPublicationsPreservation HRA WG Web site Current and Future Status
Proposed National Reporters
Future ActivitiesSlide3HRA WG established in 2003 as Joint WG of C40/41 Div
X(B)/XII(C)Maintain an ongoing bibliography of publications relevant to the history of radio astronomyDocument and preserve surviving historically-significant radio telescopes and associated instrumentationDocument the careers of deceased radio astronomers – Biographical MemoirsSlide4Publications & Research
Books2013, Baars, International Radio Telescope Projects2013, Goss, Making Waves-Ruby Payne Scott2015, Orchiston, History of New Zealand AstronomySchwartz and Zensus – History of
MPIfR (in German)Published papersJournal of Astronomical History and Heritage (> 25 papers)Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of IndiaNancius Hambugenisis – German Radio AstronomyBiographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Martyn, Mills, Minnett, Piddington, Smerd)URSI Bulletin No. 348 : Baars, History of Flux Density Calibration in Radio Astronomy, Slide5Conferences
The Modern Radio UniversePorcas, History of EVN, 30 Years of Fringes10th EVN SymposiumPorcas, History of the EVN2013 Resolving the Sky
Papers by Goss, McAdam, Kellermann, Matveyenko, Booth, Ekers, Noordam, van Ardenne, Schilizzi, Hirabayshi, Hong 2015 JIVE Inaugural SympoisumPapers by Booth, Schilizzi, Miley, Kellermann – History of VLBI2015 IAU Symposium Extragalactic JetsHazard et al. 3C 273 The First QuasarKellermann,
The Road to Quasars
2014, URSI GA
Ekers,
Enabling Technologies for Modern Radio
Astronomy
2013
50 Years of Radio Astronomy at TIFR, India
Swarup
, Reminiscences and Highlights
Goss, Role of J. L.
Pawsey
2015
, The Golden Years of Radio Astronomy, IAU GASlide6Slide7Karl Jansky Site and Memorial
Memorial Established 1998473 acre Bell Labs site sold to Lucent TechnologiesAlcatel - LucentSomerset DevelopmentCommunity CenterHousingNational Historic LandmarkSlide8Bracewell Piers and Sundial
VLA sundial -201310/32 concrete pillarsSlide9HRA WG Web site
http://rahist.nrao.edu/Membership Triennial Reports – 2006, 2009, 2012, (2015)Grote Reber MedalistsBiographical MemoirsRelated ResourcesSullivan
: http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/woody/hra.htmlNRAO Archives: http://www.nrao.edu/archives/Woody Sullivan interviews with 255 radio astronomersNRAO Institutional RecordsPapers of Backer, Bracewell, Brown, Burke,Cohen,Conklin, Ewen, Findlay, Gordon, Heeschen, Hogg, Kellermann, Krauss,
Reber
,
Shalloway
,
Sullivan,Thompson
, Ulvestad,
Vanden
Bout, Wade
Finding aid:
http://jump2.nrao.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/archivesearch.htmSlide10Status of the HRA WG
2012 GA C41/Div XII (C) affiliation unclearAll Commissions & WG will be dissolved at end of GAC40 will morph into CB-4WG included in new proposal C41 will morph into CC-3WG included in new proposal1 slide WG report will be included in C41 report to Div
CAugust 5 HRA WG Business MeetingContinue Working (Functional) GroupMaintain joint status with Commission on History of AstronomyEstablish Inter-Union WG with URSISlide11Proposed National Reporters
2015-2018Rod Davies (UK)
Ron Ekers (Australia)Pierre Encrenaz (France) Luigina Feretti (Italy)Leonid Gurvits
Masato
Ishiguro (Japan)
Ken Kellermann (US)
Wayne Orchiston (Southeast Asia)
Gopal Krishna (India)
Richard Schilizzi (Vice Chair)
Richard Strom (Netherlands)
Jasper Wall (Canada)
Richard Wielebinski (Germany)Slide12Proposed WG Leadership (2015-2018)
Chair - Richard Wielebinski Vice Chair - Richard Schilizzi
Secretary - Ellen Bouton Past-Chair - Ken KellermannSlide13Current and Future Activities
ConferencesEkersfest: September 2016HRA WG Web siteNRAO ArchivesSullivan interviewsProcessing of papersAcquire remaining Reber papersJansky Site R
estoration and Historical LandmarkPreserve early French radio telescopes (Encrenaz)Books in PreparationPeter Robertson, John Bolton - Pioneering a New AstronomyGoss, Ekers, Hooker Joe. PawseyFrater et al. Christiansen, Mills, Wild, BracewellKellermann, Bouton, Smith, Open SkiesJarrell, Wall, Griffen, Robishaw
:
Canadian Radio Astronomy
Schwartz and
Zensus:
History
of
MPIfR
(English translation)
PhD Dissertations
Peter Robertson, John
B
olton
Martin George,
Early
low-frequency radio astronomy in
Tasmania