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    • Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs : HI observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies 

      Michałowski, Michał J.; Gentile, G.; Hjorth, J.; Krumholz, M. R.; Tanvir, N. R.; Kamphuis, P.; Burlon, D.; Baes, M.; Basa, S.; Berta, S.; Ceron, J. M. Castro; Crosby, D.; D'Elia, V.; Elliott, J.; Greiner, J.; Hunt, L. K.; Klose, S.; Koprowski, M. P.; Floc'h, E. Le; Malesani, D.; Murphy, T.; Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa; Palazzi, E.; Rasmussen, J.; Rossi, A.; Savaglio, S.; Schady, P.; Sollerman, J.; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Watson, D.; Werf, P. van der; Vergani, S. D.; Xu, D. (2015-08-13)
      Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), among the most energetic events in the Universe, are explosions of massive and short-lived stars, so they pinpoint locations of recent star formation. However, several GRB host galaxies have ...
    • MeerKAT HI commissioning observations of MHONGOOSE galaxy ESO 302-G014 

      Blok, W. J. G. de; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, Albert; Combes, Francoise; English, J.; Heald, George H.; Kamphuis, P.; Koribalski, B. S.; Meurer, G. R.; Román, J.; Sardone, A.; Verdes-Montenegro, L.; Bigiel, F.; Brinks, E.; Chemin, L.; Fraternali, F.; Jarrett, T.; Kleiner, D.; Maccagni, F. M.; Pisano, D. J.; Serra, P.; Spekkens, K.; Amram, P.; Carignan, C.; Dettmar, R-J; Gibson, B. K.; Holwerda, B. W.; Józsa, G. I. G; Lucero, D. M.; Oosterloo, T. A.; Ramaila, A. J. T.; Ramatsoku, M.; Sheth, K.; Walter, Fabian; Wong, O.I.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Bloemen, S.; Groot, P. J.; Poole, R. Le; Klein-Wolt, M.; Körding, E. G.; McBride, V. A.; Paterson, K.; Pieterse, D. L. A.; Vreeswijk, P.; Woudt, P. A. (2020-09-22)
      We present the results of three commissioning HI observations obtained with the MeerKAT radio telescope. These observations make up part of the preparation for the forthcoming MHONGOOSE nearby galaxy survey, which is a ...
    • MHONGOOSE -- A MeerKAT Nearby Galaxy HI Survey 

      Blok, W. J. G. de; Healy, J.; Maccagni, F. M.; Pisano, D.J.; Bosma, A.; English, J.; Jarrett, T.; Marasco, A.; Meurer, G.R.; Veronese, S.; Bigiel, F.; Chemin, L.; Fraternali, F.; Holwerda, B.; Kamphuis, P.; Klöckner, H.R.; Kleiner, D.; Leroy, Adam K.; Mogotsi, M.; Oman, K.A.; Schinnerer, E.; Verdes-Montenegro, Lourdes; Westmeier, T.; Wong, O.I.; Zabel, N.; Amram, P.; Carignan, C.; Combes, F.; Brinks, Elias; Dettmar, R-J.; Gibson, B.K.; Józsa, G. I. G; Koribalski, B. S.; McGaugh, S. S.; Oosterloo, T.A.; Spekkens, K.; Schröder, A.C.; Adams, E.A.K.; Athanassoula, E.; Bershady, M.A.; Beswick, R.J.; Blyth, S.; Elson, E.C.; Frank, B.S.; Heald, G; Henning, P.A.; Kurapati, S.; Loubser, S. I.; Lucero, D.; Meyer, M.; Namumba, B.; Oh, S.-H.; Sardone, A.; Sheth, K.; Smith, M.W.L.; Sorgho, A.; Walter, F.; Williams, T.; Woudt, P. A.; Zijlstra, A. (2024-08-21)
      The MHONGOOSE (MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects: Observing Southern Emitters) survey maps the distribution and kinematics of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas in and around 30 nearby star-forming spiral ...
    • MHONGOOSE discovery of a gas-rich low-surface brightness galaxy in the Dorado Group 

      Maccagni, F. M.; Blok, W. J. G. de; Piña, P. E. Mancera; Ragusa, R.; Iodice, E.; Spavone, M.; McGaugh, S.; Oman, K. A.; Oosterloo, T. A.; Koribalski, B. S.; Kim, M.; Adams, E. A. K.; Amram, P.; Bosma, A.; Bigiel, F.; Brinks, E.; Chemin, L.; Combes, F.; Gibson, B.; Healy, J.; Holwerda, B. W.; Józsa, G. I. G.; Kamphuis, P.; Kleiner, D.; Kurapati, S.; Marasco, A.; Spekkens, K.; Veronese, S.; Walter, F.; Zabel, N.; Zijlstra, A. (2024-09-30)
      We present the discovery of a low-mass gas-rich low-surface brightness galaxy in the Dorado Group, at a distance of 17.7 Mpc. Combining deep MeerKAT 21-cm observations from the MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic ...
    • SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results 

      Hartley, P.; Bonaldi, A.; Braun, R.; Aditya, J. N. H. S.; Aicardi, S.; Alegre, L.; Chakraborty, A.; Chen, X.; Choudhuri, S.; Clarke, A. O.; Coles, J.; Collinson, J. S.; Cornu, D.; Darriba, L.; Veneri, M. Delli; Forbrich, J.; Fraga, B.; Galan, A.; Garrido, J.; Gubanov, F.; Håkansson, H.; Hardcastle, M. J.; Heneka, C.; Herranz, D.; Hess, K. M.; Jagannath, M.; Jaiswal, S.; Jurek, R. J.; Korber, D.; Kitaeff, S.; Kleiner, D.; Lao, B.; Lu, X.; Mazumder, A.; Moldón, J.; Mondal, R.; Ni, S.; Önnheim, M.; Parra, M.; Patra, N.; Peel, A.; Salomé, P.; Sánchez-Expósito, S.; Sargent, M.; Semelin, B.; Serra, P.; Shaw, A. K.; Shen, A. X.; Sjöberg, A.; Smith, L.; Soroka, A.; Stolyarov, V.; Tolley, E.; Toribio, M. C.; Hulst, J. M. van der; Sadr, A. Vafaei; Verdes-Montenegro, L.; Westmeier, T.; Yu, K.; Yu, L.; Zhang, L.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, Y.; Alberdi, A.; Ashdown, M.; Bom, C. R.; Brüggen, M.; Cannon, J.; Chen, R.; Combes, F.; Conway, J.; Courbin, F.; Ding, J.; Fourestey, G.; Freundlich, J.; Gao, L.; Gheller, C.; Guo, Q.; Gustavsson, E.; Jirstrand, M.; Jones, M. G.; Józsa, G.; Kamphuis, P.; Kneib, J. -P.; Lindqvist, M.; Liu, B.; Liu, Y.; Mao, Y.; Marchal, A.; Márquez, I.; Meshcheryakov, A.; Olberg, M.; Oozeer, N.; Pandey-Pommier, M.; Pei, W.; Peng, B.; Sabater, J.; Sorgho, A.; Starck, J. L.; Tasse, C.; Wang, A.; Wang, Y.; Xi, H.; Yang, X.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, J.; Zhao, M.; Zuo, S. (2023-08-01)
      The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomers will be correspondingly large and complex, ...