Randall Wayth
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Randall Wayth is a radio astronomer with a background in computer science and electrical engineering. He has broad astrophysical interests ranging from dark matter through to the birth of the first stars and galaxies. He has been involved with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope since 2005 and led the science commissioning and GLEAM survey teams. As a scientist with a technical background, Randall bridges the gap between the science and engineering communities and works on novel ways to use radio telescope instrumentation. More recently he has taken on the Director role for the MWA and is the Project Scientist for the SKA-Low Aperture Array Design Consortium.
Research Interest
Astrophysics
Publications
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de Lera Acedo, E., C. M. Trott, R. B. Wayth, N. Fagnoni, G. Bernardi, B. Wakley, L. V. E. Koopmans, A. J. Faulkner, and J. G. bij de Vaate. 2017. "Spectral performance of SKA log-periodic antennas I: Mitigating spectral artefacts in SKA1-LOW 21 cm cosmology experiments." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469 (3): 2662-2671.
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Trott, C. M., E. D. L. Acedo, R. B. Wayth, N. Fagnoni, A. T. Sutinjo, B. Wakley, and C. I. B. Punzalan. 2017. "Spectral performance of Square Kilometre Array Antennas - II. Calibration performance." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 470 (1): 455-465.
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Sutinjo, A. T., D. C. X. Ung, T. M. Colegate, R. B. Wayth, P. J. Hall, and E. De Lera Acedo. 2017. "Revisiting Hybrid Interferometry with Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Arrays." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 65 (8): 3967-3975.
