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| Paper: |
Radio Astronomy in Malaysia: Current Status and Outreach Activities |
| Volume: |
451, 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics |
| Page: |
355 |
| Authors: |
Hashim, N.; Abidin, Z. Z.; Ibrahim, U. F. S. U.; Umar, R.; Hassan, M. S. R.; Rosli, Z.; Hamidi, Z. S.; Ibrahim, Z. A. |
| Abstract: |
In this paper, we will present the current status of radio astronomical research
and outreach in Malaysia. We will also present a short history of our research
group, which is currently the only radio astronomical facility in Malaysia.
Our group is called the Radio Cosmology Research Lab and was established in
2005 by Dr Zamri Zainal Abidin and Prof Dr Zainol Abidin Ibrahim. We will
discuss the future plans for this group including our keen interest in being
part of a more global network of radio astronomers. We are already an active
member of the South-East Asia Astronomy Network (SEAAN) and aims to have a radio
astronomical facility in order to join the Global Very Long Baseline Interferometer
(VLBI) as well becoming a research hub for the future Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
project. We will also present some of the scientific goals of our group including
providing a platform for radio astronomers to be able to do observations of weak and
high red-shifted radio objects such as galaxy clusters and supernovae. |
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