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1 Historical Radio Astronomy Working Group Report to C 40 IAU General Asssembly August 6, 2015 Honolulu, HI Ken Kellermann NRAO
2 Outline Goals of the HRA WG Triennial Report Deceased radio astronomers Conferences Publications Preservation HRA WG Web site Current and Future Status Proposed National Reporters Future Activities
3 HRA WG established in 2003 as Joint WG of C40/41 Div X(B)/XII(C) Maintain an ongoing bibliography of publications relevant to the history of radio astronomy Document and preserve surviving historicallysignificant radio telescopes and associated instrumentation Document the careers of deceased radio astronomers Biographical Memoirs
4 Publications & Research Books 2013, Baars, International Radio Telescope Projects 2013, Goss, Making Waves-Ruby Payne Scott 2015, Orchiston, History of New Zealand Astronomy Schwartz and Zensus History of MPIfR (in German) Published papers Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (> 25 papers) Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India Nancius Hambugenisis German Radio Astronomy Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Martyn, Mills, Minnett, Piddington, Smerd) URSI Bulletin No. 348 : Baars, History of Flux Density Calibration in Radio Astronomy,
5 Conferences The Modern Radio Universe Porcas, History of EVN, 30 Years of Fringes 10 th EVN Symposium Porcas, History of the EVN 2013 Resolving the Sky Papers by Goss, McAdam, Kellermann, Matveyenko, Booth, Ekers, Noordam, van Ardenne, Schilizzi, Hirabayshi, Hong 2015 JIVE Inaugural Sympoisum Papers by Booth, Schilizzi, Miley, Kellermann History of VLBI 2015 IAU Symposium Extragalactic Jets Hazard et al. 3C 273 The First Quasar Kellermann, The Road to Quasars 2014, URSI GA Ekers, Enabling Technologies for Modern Radio Astronomy Years of Radio Astronomy at TIFR, India Swarup, Reminiscences and Highlights Goss, Role of J. L. Pawsey 2015, The Golden Years of Radio Astronomy, IAU GA
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7 Karl Jansky Site and Memorial Memorial Established acre Bell Labs site sold to Lucent Technologies Alcatel - Lucent Somerset Development Community Center Housing National Historic Landmark
8 Bracewell Piers and Sundial VLA sundial /32 concrete pillars
9 HRA WG Web site Membership Triennial Reports 2006, 2009, 2012, (2015) Grote Reber Medalists Biographical Memoirs Related Resources Sullivan: NRAO Archives: Woody Sullivan interviews with 255 radio astronomers NRAO Institutional Records Papers of Backer, Bracewell, Brown, Burke,Cohen,Conklin, Ewen, Findlay, Gordon, Heeschen, Hogg, Kellermann, Krauss, Reber, Shalloway, Sullivan,Thompson, Ulvestad, Vanden Bout, Wade Finding aid:
10 Status of the HRA WG 2012 GA C41/Div XII (C) affiliation unclear All Commissions & WG will be dissolved at end of GA C40 will morph into CB-4 WG included in new proposal C41 will morph into CC-3 WG included in new proposal 1 slide WG report will be included in C41 report to Div C August 5 HRA WG Business Meeting Continue Working (Functional) Group Maintain joint status with Commission on History of Astronomy Establish Inter-Union WG with URSI
11 Proposed National Reporters Rod Davies (UK) Ron Ekers (Australia) Pierre Encrenaz (France) Luigina Feretti (Italy) Leonid Gurvits Masato Ishiguro (Japan) Ken Kellermann (US) Wayne Orchiston (Southeast Asia) Gopal Krishna (India) Richard Schilizzi (Vice Chair) Richard Strom (Netherlands) Jasper Wall (Canada) Richard Wielebinski (Germany)
12 Proposed WG Leadership ( ) Chair - Richard Wielebinski Vice Chair - Richard Schilizzi Secretary - Ellen Bouton Past-Chair - Ken Kellermann
13 Current and Future Activities Conferences Ekersfest: September 2016 HRA WG Web site NRAO Archives Sullivan interviews Processing of papers Acquire remaining Reber papers Jansky Site Restoration and Historical Landmark Preserve early French radio telescopes (Encrenaz) Books in Preparation Peter Robertson, John Bolton - Pioneering a New Astronomy Goss, Ekers, Hooker Joe. Pawsey Frater et al. Christiansen, Mills, Wild, Bracewell Kellermann, Bouton, Smith, Open Skies Jarrell, Wall, Griffen, Robishaw: Canadian Radio Astronomy Schwartz and Zensus: History of MPIfR (English translation) PhD Dissertations Peter Robertson, John Bolton Martin George, Early low-frequency radio astronomy in Tasmania
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