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Postdoc at Uni. Bologna. Radio astronomy: galaxy clusters, cosmic magnetism & weird AGN. Born to run, love to lift. Opinions my own. He/him.
Aug 2, 2022 21 tweets 9 min read
Paper day! Yesterday in @RAS_Journals #MNRAS, today on @_arXiv_astro_ph! Among other things in the complex cluster Abell 3266, we found a radio halo. This is a discovery almost a decade in the making - buckle up, it's story time... 1/n Image (For a link to the paper, see my Tweet yesterday...).
My work on A3266 starts back in the mists of my early PhD. The year was 2013 and I spent a month in Cape Town helping commission KAT-7 (the #MeerKAT precursor) at the @SKA_Africa CT office. 2/n