Welcome
to my website. I am a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) which is a joint venture between Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. Being an expert in radio interferometry and spectral-line radio observations, my research interests include the study of neutral hydrogen gas in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies with the aim to understand its role in the structure and evolution of galaxies residing in different environments. I am a member of several large surveys with the SKA precursor telescopes ASKAP and MeerKAT, including the WALLABY, DINGO, LADUMA and MHONGOOSE projects.
In addition to my scientific interests, I am also involved in the development of techniques for the automated detection and parametrisation of galaxies in radio astronomical surveys. I am the leader of the SoFiA project which aims to develop a source finding pipeline for radio astronomical data cubes. Please see my personal website for more information about my other interests outside of astronomy.
Contact
Tobias Westmeier
ICRAR M468
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Australia
- This e-mail address has been obfuscated as a protection against criminal humans, and a graphical web browser with CSS support is required to properly display it. That being said, my e-mail address certainly isn’t mail@ua.ude.awu
- 0000-0002-5300-2486
Latest news
- – New website design
- After more than two decades I have finally converted my website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5 to improve the markup and make use of the latest web features. This change goes hand in hand with a general redesign and updated style sheet based on CSS 3.
- – My website has moved
- CSIRO has decided to take down the personal websites of people who are no longer affiliated with them by 4 December 2024. I am therefore forced to migrate this website to a different server after 17 years. From now on my website will be available at the URL http://astro.tobias-westmeier.de/. Please update your links and bookmarks accordingly.
- – SoFiA 2.6 released
- A new stable release, SoFiA 2.6, of the Source Finding Application brings plenty of improvements and additional features, most notably the ability to load a source mask without having to rerun the source finder or linker, the option of supplying a flagging cube, support for the AST library and the ability to compile SoFiA with a C++ compiler. Please see the release notes on GitLab for more information.
- – Second WALLABY data release
- The second WALLABY public data release is out! PDR2 releases source catalogues, images, spectra and kinematic models of about 1800 galaxies to the community. These are available from CADC and CASDA, either through your web browser or via the VO TAP protocol. Please see the data release notes on the WALLABY website for more information about the release and how to access the data. The associated data release paper (Murugeshan, Deg, Westmeier et al., PASA, in press) is available on arXiv.
- – IAU General Assembly
- I delivered a WALLABY update at the IAU General Assembly in Cape Town to report on the latest WALLABY science results and public data release. A video recording of my talk (and the entire session) is available on YouTube.
