Episode 5: Cleo Loi & Steven Tingay on plasma tubes and the Murchison Widefield Array

Summary

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s “Geointeresting” podcast welcomed Ms. Cleo Loi and Professor Steven Tingay to discuss the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) — a radio telescope located in the Western Australian desert — and Loi’s discovery of the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth. Professor Tingay is the director of the MWA project and Professor of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University in Australia. Loi is a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Sydney. Tingay and Loi visted NGA's campus in Springfield, Virginia to speak with employees about the MWA and Loi's discovery. To learn more about Loi’s discovery, read the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics press release (http://caastro.org/news/2015-tubes) and Dr. Tara Murphy’s article on The Conversation (http://tinyurl.com/pknq3e2). For more about the MWA, visit http://www.mwatelescope.org/.