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ASTROPHYSICS RESEARCH University of the Free State
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Group Members: 2013
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Prof. P.J. Meintjes
Dr. B van Soelen
A. Odendaal H van HeerdenPh.D
M.Sc
D Wium J Maritz
Hons
J. Coetzee
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Undergraduate Program
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Graduate program
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NASSP ConsortiumUniversity of Cape TownUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban CampusUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg CampusUniversity of the Free StateNorth-West University, Potchefstroom CampusUniversity of ZululandRhodes UniversityUniversity of the North West, Mabatu CampusUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of the Western CapeUniversity of the WitwatersrandSouth African Astronomical ObservatoryHartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy ObservatoryHermanus Magnetic Observatory
NASSP Steering Committee
Catherine Cress Thebe Medupe
Peter Dunsby Pieter Meintjes
Mike Gaylard Adri Burger
Justin Jonas David Walker
Peter Martinez Patricia Whitelock
Derck Smits Pierre Cilliers
Fabio Frescura
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UFS NASSP Students
• Uganda (2 M.Sc, 2 PhD)
• Rwanda (1 M.Sc, 1
PhD)• UCT (1 M.Sc,
PhD in Southampton)
• Stellenbosch (1 M.Sc) 02/01/13
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NASSP Students at Boyden
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NASSP Students graduating at UFS
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Galactic to Extra-Galactic
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Research
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Multi-wavelength astrophysics of galactic and extragalactic accretion driven systems:
•Cataclysmic variables•Super Soft X-ray sources•Gamma-Ray Binaries•Search for blazars and other active galaxies among unidentified sources detected by EGRET and Fermi gamma-ray satellites •Gravity wave signatures inastrophysical processes
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Multi-Wavelength
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Multi-Wavelength Astrophysics
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UFS: Active centre for multi-wavelength astrophysics in SA
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Utilizing Existing Infrastructure in South Africa
SALT
HartRao
Sutherland
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Other International Facilities
CTIO - 4.1 m SOAR Telescope
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Other International Facilities
VLT – Cerro Paranal
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X-ray
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Chandra
XMM-Newton
Swift
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Gamma-Ray
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CGRO-EGRET (100MeV-20 GeV) Fermi-LAT (100MeV-300 GeV)
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• Coded in Fortran, 64bit Intel compiler
• To speed things up this is run on one of the 8 CPU node at the HPC at UFS
•26 x Dell 1950 Nodes with the following configuration:
•2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core CPUS (8 Cores Per node)
•8 - 16GB Memory
•Upgrade
•17 x Super Micro nodes with the following configuration:
•4 x AMD Opteron 6174 12-Core CPUS (48 Cores per node)
• Thanks to Albert van Eck
UFS-High Performance Computing Facility
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From 2013 – HESS II
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CTA
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UFS-NWU-WITS consortium
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•Astrophysics research• Material Science- experimentation with new reflecting coatings
Cerenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
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UFS-Boyden Observatory
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Getting the Public Interested
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Phil Charles
Kevin Govender
Patrick Seitzer
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ASSA Symposium
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R26 million digital planetarium-UFS-Free State Covernment Collaboration
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Metcalf- 10 inch-open evenings!!!
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WATCHER 16 INCH
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• Apogee CCD
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14 inch Celestron-Student Training