Podcaster: Jacinta Delhaize and Dr Daniel Cunnama ; Guest: Dr Kenda Knowles
Title: The Cosmic Savannah – Ep. 46: A crash of clusters
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Description:
In this episode, we are joined by Dr Kenda Knowles who is a Research Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Kenda speaks with us about her work as an observational astronomer working on the MeerKAT.
Kenda has just released a beautiful new dataset called the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS). The Survey contains images of the radio emission from 115 clusters of galaxies!
The survey has detected very faint emissions from these clusters which can teach about how these clusters form and evolve and the gas and magnetic fields within them. They also contain a wealth of data still to be explored!
Bio: Dr Jacinta Delhaize and Dr Daniel Cunnama are astronomers based in Cape Town, South Africa. Jacinta is a Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. She spends her time using huge radio telescopes to study gas and black holes in distant galaxies. Daniel is the Science Engagement Astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory. He likes to use large supercomputers to create simulations of galaxies. Both Jacinta and Daniel love to promote the incredible astronomy happening across the African continent.
Dr Kenda Knowles is a Research Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa
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