Guest Speakers

Guest speaker: Prof Gary Da Costa, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, ANU

Title: SkyMapper and the search for new Milky Way satellite galaxies

Abstract:

In the first part of this talk I will give an update of the status of
SkyMapper, RSAA's new telescope at Siding Spring Observatory that will
shortly commence a digital imaging survey of the southern hemisphere sky.

In the second part I will describe a project that my colleagues and I
will conduct using the data from SkyMapper - a search for previously
undiscovered satellites of the Milky Way. I will outline the search
techniques and why the discovery and follow-up of the new satellites
we will find is an important topic for galaxy formation and cosmology.

Guest speakers and topics mentioned in the CAS Society Diary may change without notice.

Selected Past Presentations

• Australian Astronomy and the "Federation Telescope"
  by Professor Don Matthewson (1998-03)
• The Expanding Universe and the Hubble Constant
  by Professor Jeremy Mould (1998-10)