Astronomy Astrophiz Podcast

Astrophiz 88: Cate MacQueen – The Dark Photon + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: Today we are speaking with experimental particle physicist Cate MacQueen, who conducts analyses searching for dark matter at particle accelerators. Cate is currently based at The University of Melbourne and is part of the Dark Sector Physics team who are using the Belle II detector, which is at...

In Part 3 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is again Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is an esteemed Astronomer and Astrobiologist who researches Exoplanets, Exoplanet Habitability and the evolution of our Solar system. Jonti has lead the construction of the newly commi...

Astrophiz 86: Professor Jonti Horner – Exobiology Part 2 ‘Fingerprinting Exoplanets, NASA, TESS & MINERVA-AUSTRALIS’ + ‘What’s Up Brendan’ because Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave is away at a conference in Hawaii. In Part 2 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is Professor Jonti Horner,  the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousa...

Astrophiz 85: Professor Jonti Horner - Exobiology Part 1 'The Myths of Jupiter, Comet impacts & the search for life elsewhere’ + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: In Part 1 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is a...

Astrophiz 84: “The Dark Energy Science Collaboration and the LSST” In this episode we are speaking with Venezuelan-born astrophysicist and observational cosmologist Dr Anais Möller. Anais is currently based in France and is part of the team who are the science drivers of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration attached to the LSST (the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) which is under construction at...

Today we’d like to welcome Tommy Marshman, an early stage researcher who is completing his Masters of Research at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. Tommy explains his research comparing the effectiveness of CPU and GPU pipelines when working with galactic plane surveys using Parkes data. In ‘What’s Up Doc’ for astrophotographers and observers, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what to l...

Astrophiz 82: Dr Ashley Ruiter - Supernova scientist Today we are speaking with Dr Ashley Ruiter, ARC Future Fellow and senior lecturer in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia. She specializes in Type Ia supernovae and other transient phenomena from stars, in particular their origin, evolution history, and birth rates. Basically she researches anything that erupts, explodes, or merges...

Astrophiz 81: Dr Ivy Wong - 'Star Formation, Galaxy Evolution & Radio Galaxy Zoo" Our feature interview is with Dr Ivy Wong, who researches supermassive black holes, star formation and the evolution of galaxies. Her research is sensational and you will love the questions she asks about galaxy evolution and how she goes about answering those brilliant questions. As one of the initial co-leaders of...

In this fabulous episode we are speaking with Dr JJ Eldridge, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Their general research concerns the lives and deaths of stars and particularly the effects of binary interactions on the lives of binary stars and how these change the appearance of galaxies, alter the rates of different types of supernovae and impact o...

In this episode we are speaking with Dr Stas Shabala, who is an international astrophysicist and a Lecturer in Physics at the University of Tasmania. Stas researches using powerful radio telescopes from all over the world and at the nearby Mt Pleasant facility, he investigates AGN Radio Jets & galactic evolution, and we are going to dive deep into Geodetic VLBI, (Very Long Base Interferometry) and...

Astrophiz 78: High Altitude UV Astronomy ~ Ryan Ridden Today we are speaking with Ryan Ridden, a PhD student at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research investigates cataclysmic events by launching UV telescopes attached to helium balloons high above the atmosphere! For observers and astrophotographers, in ‘What’s Up Doc’, Dr...

In this episode we feature a fabulous interview with Dr Christine Redman, who is an Honorary Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School for Education at the University of Melbourne. She is going to give us the big picture on the state of Science Education in the Primary (Elementary) Secondary and Tertiary sectors in Australia, and how Science Education is the key to Australia’s ambition to nurture...

Today we are speaking with Dr Shari Breen, who holds a research fellowship at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney. She has been awarded the prestigious Bolton Fellowship and has worked on some of the world’s and Australia’s most powerful instruments, including the Parkes Dish and the ATCA. In 2015 she was named a L’Oreal-UNESCO forWomen in Science Fellow for her work on...

Today we are at the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla in Australia, and we are speaking with Glen Nagle, who is the CSIRO’s outreach and administration lead and NASA operations support officer. Glen tells us how the technicians crewing the 26m dish at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station were the only ones capable of receiving and re-transmitting clear images o...

Please enjoy this ‘Best of 2018 Astrophiz’ double episode where we have our two most popular astrophotography interviews for 2018, Dr Ian Musgrave @ianfmusgrave and Doug Ingram @douggyi . I have removed my ’News’ ramblings and our ‘What’s up Doc’ segments from these two episodes so you can enjoy excellent advice from these two astrophotographers, without any distractions, in a single episode. (62m...

Astrophiz 73: ‘Best of 2018’ Astrophysics Please enjoy this ‘Best of 2018 Astrophiz’ episode where we have our 3 most popular astrophysics interviews for 2018. I have removed my ’News’ ramblings and Dr Ian Musgrave's ‘What’s up Doc’ segments from these three episodes so you can listen to these three astrophysicists without any distractions in a single episode. (51min) Today’s first feature intervi...

Astrophiz 72: Dr Brad Tucker ~ SUPERnova Space Detective Brad tells us about his research using the Keppler Space Telescope and how its successor TESS is generating great science already. He tells us how astrophysicists use a variety of tools to measure how the universe is changing over time. He explains how remote observing has radically changed the way astronomy is done around the world and how...

Astrophiz 71: John Sarkissian ~ ‘Aliens are cool!’ AKA SETI, PAFs & Cryogenics PLUS: 'What's up Doc', direct from Dr @ianfmusgrave ’s Astroblog Listen here: This is the fourth of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Today’s...

Astrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens ~ The ATCA PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave Listen here: Astrophiz – Astrophiz70 This is the third of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jamie...

This is the second of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Dr Chris Lidman, who is the first Director of the ANU Siding Spring Observatory, which is deep in a pristine dark sky parkin the Wurrumbungle ranges in North Easte...

This is the first of our series of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Astrophiz 68: Dr Jane Kaczmarek -Ultra wide band receiver commissioning scientist PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave Today’s feature intervie...

Astrophiz 67: Doug Ingram ~ DSLR Astrophotography 201 Today’s feature interview is with DSLR 'Nightscapades' astrophotographer Doug Ingram of Nightscapades fame, and he encourages us to dust off our DSLR cameras and learn how to start snapping the night sky, and for more experienced astrophotographers, he has some great tips and challenges. In our regular segment for astrophotographers and observe...

Astrophiz 66: Professor Steven Tingay “Building the world’s biggest radio telescope”, ICRAR, the MWO and the SKA. https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz66-prof-steven-tingay This episode features an extended interview with John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay, who is the Deputy Executive Director of ICRAR and leads the Curtin University node of ICRAR. ICRAR is the International Ce...

Astrophiz 65: Dr Andrew Cameron This episode features an extended interview with a pulsar radio astronomer, Dr Andrew Cameron, who was awarded his Doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Bonn. Andrew has just returned from China where he is working with the world’s largest instrument, the FAST radio telescope. It’s a massive 500m Spherical Teles...

Astrophiz 64: Dr Shi Dai ~ Pulsar Hunter This episode features a fabulous radio astronomer, Dr Shi Dai, who is on a very exciting quest, to find elusive pulsar-black hole binary systems. To continue his search he is working with the CASS pulsar group which is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, a division of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Dr Shi Dai has his Doctorate in radio as...