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Chair: Tuomas Savolainen
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Derek McKay (Aalto University)26/05/2026, 14:45Oral
Metsähovi Compact Array (MCA, https://www.metsahovi.fi/mca) is a radio telescope system, comprising at least three 5.5-metre parabolic dish antennas and operating at frequencies from 4 to 8 GHz. It is being built at the Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory in Kirkkonummi, Finland. In the past two years, major progress has been made on the project. The MCA's premier scientific programme...
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Jakobus Vorster (University of Helsinki)26/05/2026, 15:00Oral
Young high mass stellar objects (HMYSOs, $M_* > 8 M_\odot$) contribute significantly to the energetics of the interstellar medium through radiation fields and supernovae. However, they are rare, and form in deeply embedded cores. Simulations suggest that they gain $\sim 50\%$ of their initial mass in short bursts of accretion in $\sim 3 \%$ of their formation time. A few accretion bursts in...
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Bela Dixit (Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University)26/05/2026, 15:15Oral
Aalto University’s Metsähovi Radio Observatory in Kirkkonummi has been carrying out radio astronomical observations for 50 years. Its 14-meter telescope mainly operates at 37 GHz with a 1 GHz bandwidth, mostly in single-dish mode, but also supports VLBI observations at 22, 43, and 86 GHz. Metsähovi has recently ordered a new triple-band receiver from the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie...
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Kelley Michelle Hess (Onsala Space Observatory/Chalmers University)26/05/2026, 15:30Oral
SKA will be the first telescope to usher in a new era of how the astronomical community will interact with observational data. With data volumes approaching exabytes per year in the next decade, the SKA community is developing, through an international coordinated effort, a series of SKA Regional Centers (SRCs) in a global distributed SRC Network (SRCNet). At the Swedish SRCNet node we are...
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