Using a novel new teaching tool that uses a game engine to create an interactive astronomy universe Professor Matthew Bailes will talk about the highlights of the MeerTime program at MeerKAT. These include the discovery and timing of many new pulsars in globular clusters, giant pulse studies, many new pulsar masses, insights from the eclipses of the double pulsar and a tantalising Hellings and Downs curve from the MeerKAT pulsar timing array.
BIO
Professor Matthew Bailes is a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). He is a world leader in the discovery and timing of millisecond pulsars and has made pivotal contributions to the discovery of the Fast Radio Bursts-enigmatic millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves that strike the Earth many thousands of times per day and are of unknown origin. In 2023 this was recognized when he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Professor Bailes’research mainly concerns developing instrumentation for time domain astrophysics and using it for pulsar and FRB discovery in conjunction with collaborators in Australia, Europe, South Africa and the US. He is the leader of the MeerTime collaboration that is using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa to explore relativistic gravity with rafdio pulsars.
Matthew Bailes教授是斯威本科技大学的杰出教授，同时担任澳大利亚引力波发现卓越中心（OzGrav）的主任。他是澳大利亚科学院的院士，也是前澳大利亚研究委员会桂冠学者。Bailes教授在毫秒脉冲星的发现和精确计时方面处于世界领先地位，并对快速射电暴（FRBs）的发现做出了关键性贡献，这些神秘的无线电波爆发持续时间仅几毫秒，每天超过10万次到达地球，其起源尚不明确。2023年，他因在天文学领域的贡献获得了邵逸夫天文学奖。
Bailes教授的研究主要集中在为时域天体物理学开发仪器，并与他在澳大利亚、欧洲、南非和美国的合作者一起，将其用于脉冲星和FRB的发现。他是MeerTime合作项目的领导者，该项目使用南非的MeerKAT射电望远镜探索相对论引力与射电脉冲星的关系。
Host: Di Li
