Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008

Report on Report on the Second Asian the Second Asian

Radio Astronomy School 2008Radio Astronomy School 2008

Tomoya Hirota Tomoya Hirota

(Mizusawa-VERA, NAOJ)(Mizusawa-VERA, NAOJ)

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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)

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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.3

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

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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.

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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) 6

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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

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

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)

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• Remote demonstration of SMA and AMiBA from Taipei

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 15

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 16

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?17