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Research Group mid 2007

Top row, left to right: Jay Blanchard, Anita Titmarsh, Rob Gregor, Minnie Mao, Warren Hankey;
Bottom row: Jessica Simpson, Hannah Windle, Anne-Marie Brick, James Gill.

Graduate & Honours Students

Warren Hankey: 2006 - present

PhD Thesis: Polarimetry Properties of Centaurus A, 2008 - present
Honours Thesis (first class): Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies: Feb 2007
Scholarships:
2008 - 2011 Australian Postgraduate Award
2008 - 2011 Grote Reber Postgraduate Scholarship in Radio Astronomy
2006 - 2007 Grote Reber Honours Scholarship
2007 HWWS travel grant
2006 Swinburne Winter school on Astrophysics
Publications:
1. Hankey, W., Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Ekers, R.D., Magnetic Fields in Southern Galaxy Clusters, MNRAS (in preparation)

Kain Chambers: 2008 - present

PhD Thesis: Fluid Dymanics in Astrophysics, 2008 - present
Scholarships:
2008 - 2011 Australian Postgraduate Award

James Gill: 2005 - present

Research Assistant: Understanding Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters, 2008 - present
Honours Thesis (first class): The Role Environment Plays on Radio Emission in Clusters of Galaxies: Nov 2007
Undergraduate Research Project: Polarimetric observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 3667: 2006
Vacation Scholar: Spectroscopic Analysis of A3376: Dec 2005 - March 2006
Scholarships:
2007 Dave Warren Scholarship in Optical Astronomy
2007 HWWS travel scholarship
2006 Anglo-Australian Observatory Summer Scholarship
2005 University of Tasmania Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics
2006 Swinburne Winter School on Astrophysics
2006 ANISE Winterschool Scholarship
Publications:
4. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M.C., Hunstead, R.W., Rose, J.A., & Christiansen, W., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster - II. Radio Luminosity Functions of the A3125/A3128 Cluster Complex, MNRAS (in preparation)
3. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Gill, J.A., Finoguenov, A., Miniati, F. & Tunstall, L., Spectroscopic Analysis of A3376, MNRAS (in preparation)
2.Johnston-Hollitt, M., Sato, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M., & Brick, A.-M., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster -I. A3158: Excess of Star-forming Galaxies in a Merging Cluster?, MNRAS (submitted)
1. Gill, J.A., Polarimetric observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 3667, Nexus Journal of Undergraduate Teaching, 2006, vol 3, p14-23. Mentored by Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Rob Gregor: 2007 - present

Honours Thesis: Faraday Rotation in A3376: due to be completed mid 2008
Scholarships: 2007 University of Tasmania Honours Scholarship

Andrew Pilgrim: 2008 - present

Honours Thesis: Understanding the Brewer-Dobson Effect
Scholarships: 2007 Faculty of Science Honours Scholarship

Minnie Mao: 2007 - 2008

Honours Thesis (First class): Head-Tailed Galaxies as Barometers of Cluster Weather: Nov 2007
Scholarships:
2006 University of Tasmania Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics
2007 Dave Warren Scholarship in Optical Astronomy
2007 ATNF Summer Scholarship
2007 AIP-Tas Travel Scholarship
2007 HWWS Travel Scholarship
2008 University of Tasmania Postgraduate Award
Publications:
1. Mao, M.Y., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Stevens, J.B, & Wotherspoon, S.J. Head-Tail Galaxies: Beacons of High-Density Regions in Galaxy Clusters, MNRAS (submitted)

Anne-Marie Brick: 2007 - 2008

Honours Thesis (First class): Understanding the Diffuse Emission in A3128: Nov 2007
Scholarships:
2005 University of Tasmania Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics
2007 University of Tasmania Honours Scholarship
2007 AIP-Tas Travel Scholarship
2007 HWWS travel scholarship
2007 ATNF Summer Scholarship
2008 University of Tasmania Postgraduate Award
Publications:
1.Johnston-Hollitt, M., Sato, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M., & Brick, A.-M., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster -I. A3158: Excess of Star-forming Galaxies in a Merging Cluster?, MNRAS (submitted)

Clair Murrowood: 2005 -2006

Honours Thesis: Large-scale structure in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster
Scholarships:
2005 Dave Warren Scholarship in Optical Astronomy
2005 AIP-Tas Travel Scholarship
2005 HWWS Travel Scholarship
2005 Anglo-Australian Observatory Summer Scholarship
Publications:
1. Ryder, S., Murrowood, C.E., & Stathakis, R.A., A post-mortem investigation of the Type IIb supernova 2001ig MNRAS, 369, L32

Undergraduate Students

Jay Blanchard: Dec 2006 - June 2007

Projects: Ionospheric Faraday Rotation Measures & Investigation into the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster and Abell 3135

Anita Titmarsh: March 2007 - June 2007

project: Investigation into the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster and Abell 3135

Madhura Killedar: Dec 2005 - Feb 2006

Project: Polarimetry of A3667
2005 University of Tasmania Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics

Lewis Tunstall: June 2005 - Dec 2005

project: Analysing the dynamical structure of A3376 through multi-object spectroscopy
publications:
1. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Gill, J.A., Finoguenov, A., Miniati, F. & Tunstall, L., Spectroscopic Analysis of A3376, MNRAS (in preparation)

Mayumi Sato: Dec 2004 - Feb 2005

projects: Radio observations of A3376, A3701 & A3695 & Source counts in A3158 a central member cluster of the Horologium- Reticulum Supercluster
2004 University of Tasmania Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics
publications:
1.Johnston-Hollitt, M., Sato, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M., & Brick, A.-M., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster -I. A3158: Excess of Star-forming Galaxies in a Merging Cluster?, MNRAS (submitted)

CSIRO Students

Hannah Windle: May 2007 - August 2007

project: Characterising Substructure in the Galaxy Cluster Merger A3125/A3128

Jessica Simpson: May 2007 - August 2007

project: Dynamics of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster

Mathew Cresse: May 2005 - August 2005

project: Optical properties of A4059