'The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen,
but to think what
no body yet has thought about that which everyone sees.'
A. Schopenhauer
Welcome!
I am a Post-doctoral Research Associate within the
ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics
(CAASTRO) funded by the
the
Australian Research Council (ARC). I am also
part of the
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at
The University of Western Australia, where I am based.
In my work I focus on various stages of radio galaxy
and radio-loud quasar lifes, and the impact they
exert on
their host galaxy (smaller scale) as welll as galaxy
groups and clusters' (larger scale) evolution.
In my work I use all main methods to study
radio galaxies, and that includes analytical models,
numerical simulations (mainly MC), statistics and
radio observations. I am strongly involved with two
fantastic new-generation radio telescopes,
the
Australian Murchison Widefield Array
(MWA), the European LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR),
and ASKAP, the Australian SKA Pathfinder.
As of mid 2014 I am a Project Manager of the ASKAP
Evolutionary Map of the Universe
(EMU).
Previously I was Senior Research Associate at
the
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) at the
University of Portsmouth, where I worked on the
international LOFAR baselines. I am still linked to
ICG continuing work on LOFAR with Dr. David Bacon as
a Visiting Research Fellow.
And before that, I spent my training years within the
Astronomy Group at
the
University of Southampton where
I was a doctorate student. I worked under the
supervision of Dr. Tom Maccarone, taken over from
Dr. Phil Uttley, on the evolution of radio galaxies
and radio-loud quasars. The project was initially
started with Dr. Christian Kaiser, and was funded by
The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant.
NEWS....
January 2015
`Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA: Science Book' (2015)
is now in press, and will come out sometime this year,
but some the chapters composing the updated SKA science case
are out already now on arXiV!
Chapters composing continuum science are collated
here. And
the chapter closest to my heart on Life
cycles of radio galaxies is here .
Enjoy!
January 2014
Radio Galaxy Zoo has
launched!
An extension to the well known by now Galaxy
Zoo, the Radio Galaxy Zoo - a quest for
supermassive black holes, has launched just before
Christmas. Beyond the main aim of matching and classifying
radio and infrared sources, there is a
RGZ Talk which
has grown to great (and deep!) sizes - seriously,
worth checking out! Try it
yourself, spread the word and help the science!
August 2013
Next stop: Perth, Australia. Arrived.
May 2012
Australia and South Africa will share SKA!
[Nature News, SKA Project Office
press release]
March 2012
You've been Jodcasted! The special LOFAR themed
edition of the Jodcast,
where I was also interviewed, is available here. Enjoy!
January 2012
Just arrived in Portsmouth..
Contact:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
ICRAR M468, 35 Stirling Hwy
University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009
Australia
Physical address:
7 Fairway, 1st floor Room 142
+61 (0)8 6488 7748
anna.kapinska [at] uwa.edu.au
anna.kapinska [at] port.ac.uk