NARIT-Maser Key Science Focus Group Meeting

4 Sep 2019, 08:30 → 6 Sep 2019, 16:30 Asia/Bangkok

Ursa Major

Wednesday, 4 September

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome and Opening by NARIT Executive Director

09:10 → 09:40 Current status of the 40-m TNRT

Speaker: Phrudth Jaroenjittichai (NARIT)

09:40 → 10:10 Astrophysical Masers as Tools to Study Massive Star-forming Regions

Speaker: Dr Busaba Kramer (MPIfR/NARIT, Germany/Thailand)

10:10 → 10:40 Astrophysical Masers as Tools to study Late Type Stars from cm to Submm Observations

Speaker: Dr Anita Richards (JBCA, UK)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Masers Theory - What we know so far!

Speaker: Dr Malcolm Gray (JBCA, UK)

11:30 → 12:00 Southern Sky Observations of Masers – Potential future collaboration with TNRT

Speaker: Dr James Green (CASS/CSIRO, Australia)

12:00 → 13:30 Group Photo & Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:00 OH Maser monitoring – A Potential Key Science for TNRT

Speaker: Dr Sandra Etoka (JBCA, UK)

14:00 → 14:30 Future KaVA+TNRT Spectral Line VLBI Observations

Speaker: Dr Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ, Japan)

14:30 → 15:00 Maser Astrometry and Simultaneous Multi-frequency Calibration for VLBI

Speaker: Dr Maria Rioja (ICRAR/CASS/CSIRO/IGN, Australia/Spain)

15:00 → 15:30 Maser Astrometry & Full Polarization Observation Techniques with TNRT+LBA+EAVN

Speaker: Dr Richard Dodson (ICRAR, Australia )

15:30 → 18:30 Coffee break and Visit to TNRO Site

Thursday, 5 September

09:30 → 10:00 Current Maser Research Projects at NARIT

Speaker: Kitiyanee Asanok (NARIT)

10:00 → 10:30 Flux Variability of Masers in High-mass Star-forming Regions

Speaker: Dr Koichiro Sugiyama (NAOJ/NARIT, Japan/Thailand)

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:15 Star formation in/around Galactic HII regions

Speaker: Dr Ram Kesh Yadav (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand)

11:15 → 11:30 Students’ short presentations about their experience and current project

1) Mr. Bannawit Pimpanuwat, 1st year Thai PhD. DPST scholarship student, The University of Manchester, U.K. (Main Supervisor: M.D. Gray)
2) Mr. Montree Phetra, 1st year MSc, Chiang Mai University, Thailand (Main Supervisor: K. Asanok)

11:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:00 Spectral Line Surveys using 40m TNRT

Speaker: Kitiyanee Asanok (NARIT)

14:00 → 14:30 Research for Flux Variability with 40m TNRT

Speaker: Dr Koichiro Sugiyama (NAOJ/NARIT, Japan/Thailand)

14:30 → 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 → 15:15 Unbiased Ammonia Survey of the Galactic Plane with TNRT

Speaker: Ram Kesh Yadav (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand)

15:15 → 17:00 Open Discussions (e.g. other potential topics)

Friday, 6 September

09:30 → 12:00 Updating the TNRT Spectral Line White Papers, discuss future research collaboration, updating research proposal and planning future activities (2020/21)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 16:30 Wrap up & Summary