"Piercing Deeper Into the Radio Universe - A MeerKAT Perspective"
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
- Date: Apr 16, 2026
- Time: 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: James Chibueze (University of South Africa)
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching)
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m.
Abstract:
MeerKAT telescope has improved our understanding of various aspects of our radio universe ranging from stars, supernova remnant, pulsars, radio galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, and cosmology. In this talk, I will highlight some of the recent results from MeerKAT with particular focus on the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS) as it relates to star formation, and the influence of cluster environment to the evolution of radio galaxies as described below.
Intra-Cluster Magnetic field play a key role in the evolution of the cluster member galaxies. MRC 0600-399 is the second brightest member galaxy of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376 (redshift 0.0461). Elongated X-ray emission in the east–west direction shows a comet-like structure that reaches the megaparsec scale. MRC 0600-399 shows a 90-degree bend at the contact discontinuity, and the collimated jets extend over 100 kiloparsecs from the point of the bend. I will show the results of the polarization observations of MRC 0600-399 with MeerKAT to explore the properties of the magnetic fields of the galaxy.
MeerKAT telescope has improved our understanding of various aspects of our radio universe ranging from stars, supernova remnant, pulsars, radio galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, and cosmology. In this talk, I will highlight some of the recent results from MeerKAT with particular focus on the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS) as it relates to star formation, and the influence of cluster environment to the evolution of radio galaxies as described below.
Intra-Cluster Magnetic field play a key role in the evolution of the cluster member galaxies. MRC 0600-399 is the second brightest member galaxy of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376 (redshift 0.0461). Elongated X-ray emission in the east–west direction shows a comet-like structure that reaches the megaparsec scale. MRC 0600-399 shows a 90-degree bend at the contact discontinuity, and the collimated jets extend over 100 kiloparsecs from the point of the bend. I will show the results of the polarization observations of MRC 0600-399 with MeerKAT to explore the properties of the magnetic fields of the galaxy.