| 19th of July 2015 |
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| Current and future dwarf galaxy research |
| by Deidre Hunter (Lowell Observatory) |
| Last week astronomers from around Sydney and
Perth gathered at CSIRO for a workshop on "HI in Dwarf Galaxies". A common
theme were the insights, and additional questions, that came from pushing
observations beyond what had been done before - deeper radio, deeper optical,
wider field of view, higher angular resolution, or unbiased complete galactic
neighborhoods. In the future, HI surveys like the WALLABY imaging project with ASKAP-12 and eventually
those carried out with the SKA, together with an ultra-deep optical survey like
that with the Huntsman Telephoto Array, will yield an unprecedented view of
galactic neighborhoods and the large-scale processes that have affected the
formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. Photo credit: Vicki Drazenovic |