The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has a dynamic and rapidly growing astrophysics group with 7 staff members, 7 post-doctoral researchers and 11 Phd/Msc students, carrying out research in observational and theoretical astronomy and cosmology. The group has contributing science from several departments within UWC including Physics, Statistics and Biotechnology, covering topics such as: galaxy evolution, hydrodynamical N-body simulations, pulsation modes in dwarf stars, multiwavelength survey science, large-scale clustering statistics from radio surveys, dynamical evolution of galaxies in groups, dark energy and modified gravity, astro-statistics, and methods of exploration for life on Mars. The group is also involved in many of the projects planned for MeerKAT, the pathfinder telescope for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and for the South African Large Telescope (SALT), South Africa’s 10m-class optical telescope.
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SKA on the Birthplace of Humanity
taken from Cape Times…
South Africa has been judged the superior location for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, but the Australians are not happy and SKA project leaders are now considering whether they should split it between the two countries.
This switch from science to diplomacy suggests that astronomers are every bit as human as the rest of us. The Australians want it to be in Australia and the South Africans want it to be in SA. So let me assume a position of scientific neutrality and say where I think it should go.
But first some background about our chosen location near Vanwyksvlei in the Northern Cape. Reading the press releases you will assume that the site has no history worth mentioning.
You will find no mention of the fact that it was the home of the /Xam, a people with a culture reaching back tens of thousands of years. No mention of the world-renowned archive they left us. No mention of the star knowledge for which they are famous. No mention of our ancestry which binds us to the /Xam and connects every person on the planet to this continent.
Read full article at the Cape Times
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Latest UWC Publications
- The suppression of star formation by powerful active galactic nuclei Nature, Volume 485, Issue 7397, pp. 213-216 (2012). May 2012
- A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich structure Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Online Early May 2012
- HerMES: Candidate Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies and Lensing Statistics at Submillimeter Wavelengths eprint arXiv:1205.3778 May 2012
- Clustering of star-forming galaxies detected in mid-infrared with the Spitzer wide-area survey eprint arXiv:1205.2045 May 2012
- Anisotropy in the Matter Distribution Beyond the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation Scale The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 751, Issue 1, article id. L2 (2012). May 2012
- Detection of an increasing orbital period in the subdwarf B eclipsing system NSVS 14256825 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 421, Issue 4, pp. 3238-3241. Apr 2012
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