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Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008

Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008. Tomoya Hirota (Mizusawa-VERA, NAOJ). LOC members. Vivien Chen (NTHU) Yoshiaki Hagiwara (NAOJ) Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ) Daisuke Iono (NAOJ) Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ) Patrick Koch (ASIAA) Chin-Fei Lee (ASIAA)

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Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008

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  1. Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008 Tomoya Hirota (Mizusawa-VERA, NAOJ)

  2. LOC members • Vivien Chen (NTHU) • Yoshiaki Hagiwara (NAOJ) • Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ) • Daisuke Iono (NAOJ) • Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ) • Patrick Koch (ASIAA) • Chin-Fei Lee (ASIAA) • Sheng-Yuan Liu (ASIAA; Chair) • Kohichiro Morita (NAOJ) • Shigehisa Takakuwa (ASIAA) http://www2.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/act/radio_school/2008/

  3. Motivation • EA-VLBI, SMA, ALMA, VSOP-2, SKA • Most of them are international collaboration. • It is important, in particular, for young generations • to expand communities of users in Asia. • to share knowledge with each other. • to activate communications in Asia. • Well-disciplined education program is needed • We have organized Schools on radio astronomy.

  4. Background activities • Summer schools (SS) on radio astronomy and/or interferometry have been held in each countries • Japan: since 2000, every year (Interferometry SS) • Korea: 2003 and 2005 (KVN SS) • Taiwan: 2006 (held in the summer student program) • The First Asian Radio Astronomy School • Japan: January 2007, at NAOJ, Tokyo • The Second Asian Radio Astronomy School • August 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by ASIAA

  5. Overview • Date : 2008 Aug 18-22 • Venue : Academia Sinica and NTU (IAA), Taipei • Schedule : 3 days for lectures 0.5 days for laboratory tour 0.5*3 days for laboratory exercise • Budget : All of local costs (meals, tea, banquet, accommodation, transportation) were supported by ASIAA! • NAOJ supported airfares for Japanese participants.

  6. Participants • In total 87 registered participants • Country (Affiliation) • Taiwan: 46 • Korea: 20 • Japan: 15 • China: 4 • Other: 2 • Most of participants were grad. students • Physics: 7 • Astronomy: 42 • Other: 6 (according to questionnaire)

  7. Group photo

  8. Lectures • Tatsuhiko Hasegawa (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy – History • Naomi Hirano (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy - Fundamentals and Observables • Sawada-Satoh Satoko (Yamaguchi U.): Radio Telescopes and Interferometers in the world • Paul Ho (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy Science • Ming-Tang Chen (ASIAA): Antennas and Front-End (Receivers) • Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ), Seiji Kameno (Kagoshima U.) Back-End (Correlators and Spectrometers) • Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ), Seiji Kameno (Kagoshima U.) Fundamentals of Interferometry • Yoshiaki Hagiwara (NAOJ), Nagayoshi Ohashi (ASIAA), Jiun-Huei Wu (NTU): Telescope in Asia • Yu-Nung Su (ASIAA), Sheng-Yuan Liu (ASIAA) Data Reduction • Seiji Kamano (Kagoshima U.) Sensitivity and Noises • Ramprasad Rao (ASIAA): Polarization • Koh-Ichiro Morita (NAOJ): Advanced Imaging Techniques • Chin-Fei Lee (ASIAA): Maps to Science • Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ), Tatsuhiko Hasegawa (ASIAA): Proposal Writing and Observation Planning http://www2.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/act/radio_school/2008/

  9. Lecture room • Two venue • Aug.18-19: NTU(right) • Aug.20-22: AS(bottom)

  10. Data analysis exercise • VLBI: 34 students • DA193 (VLBA 15 GHz) • AIPS and DIFMAP • SMA: 50 students • HH212 (345 GHz) • MIR and Miriad • 1 laptop PC for 2 students • Tutors mainly from ASIAA (SMA) and NAOJ, Yamaguchi-U, and Kagoshima-U. (VLBI)

  11. Data analysis exercise

  12. Result of data analysis exercise

  13. Laboratory tour

  14. Telescope Remote Demonstration • Remote demonstration of SMA and AMiBA from Taipei

  15. Questionnaire • Main motivation for attending the school? • to learn radio astronomy and interferometry 33 • data reduction: 14 • data rejection: 1 • VLBI: 5 • study new field: 5 • meet friends: 4 • radio telescopes/antennas: 1 • enjoy good meals: 1 • practice English: 1 • future career needs: 1

  16. Questionnaire • Whether the school has met your expectation? • Yes: 50 • No: 3 • Partly: 2 • Would you recommend the school to your colleagues? • Yes: 54 • No: 1 • How often do you consider this school should be held? • Once per year: 33 • Twice per year: 14 • Once every two years: 12

  17. Next … ? • I have proposed to hold the School in every 2 years. • It is important to collaborate with VLBI and ALMA group. • Discussion in EACOA is necessary.  March 16-19 at Taiwan • Japan, Taiwan, and . . . next?

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