Natasha Hurley-walker
Early Career Research Fellow
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Natasha Hurley-Walker is a Curtin Early Career Research Fellow who helped to commission the low-frequency SKA precursor radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in outback Western Australia. I specialise in developing new pipelines and algorithms for radio astronomy data processing, and searching the data for new discoveries. I used the MWA to survey the entire southern sky for the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey, which gave astronomers the first "radio colour" view of the low-frequency sky.
Research Interest
Natasha Hurley-Walker is the project scientist for the Galactic and Extra-Galactic team in the MWA consortium, and head up the supernova remnants research group. Natasha Hurley-Walker also interested in radio galaxies, radio transients, and the epoch of reionisation.
Publications
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Murphy, T., D. L. Kaplan, S. Croft, C. Lynch, J. R. Callingham, K. Bannister, M. E. Bell, N. Hurley-Walker, P. Hancock, J. Line, A. Rowlinson, E. Lenc, H. T. Intema, P. Jagannathan, R. D. Ekers, S. Tingay, F. Yuan, C. Wolf, C. A. Onken, K. S. Dwarakanath, B. Q. For, B. M. Gaensler, L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, A. D. Kapinska, B. McKinley, J. Morgan, A. R. Offringa, P. Procopio, L. Staveley-Smith, R. Wayth, C. Wu, and Q. Zheng. 2017. "A search for long-time-scale, low-frequency radio transients." MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 466 (2): 1944-1953.
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Su, H., N. Hurley-Walker, C. A. Jackson, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. J. Tingay, L. Hindson, P. Hancock, R. B. Wayth, B. M. Gaensler, L. Staveley-Smith, J. Morgan, M. Johnston-Hollitt, E. Lenc, M. E. Bell, J. R. Callingham, K. S. Dwarkanath, B. Q. For, A. D. Kapińska, B. McKinley, A. R. Offringa, P. Procopio, C. Wu, and Q. Zheng. 2017. "Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250° < l < 355° from the GLEAM survey with the MWA." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 465 (3): 3163-3174.
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Reynolds, C., B. Punsly, G. Miniutti, C. P. O'Dea, and N. Hurley-Walker. 2017. "The Relativistic Jet-accretion Flow-wind Connection in Mrk 231." Astrophysical Journal 836 (2)
