Dr. Yik Ki (Jackie) Ma's Webpage

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Office E1.11

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

Auf dem Huegel 69

53121 Bonn, Germany


I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR). My primary research interest is the role of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium, as well as in the evolution of galaxies.

I am a key member of multiple large survey projects conducted with the precursor telescopes of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA), specifically the MeerKAT and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescopes. These surveys include the MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (MMGPS), the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe’s Magnetism (POSSUM), and the Galactic ASKAP HI survey(GASKAP-HI).

In addition, I am a frequent user of other world-class radio telescopes such as the Very Large Array (VLA), the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), and the Parkes “Murriyang” 64-m Radio Telescope.

This webpage is currently a work in progress.


Recent Publications

2024

  1. MNRAS
    Local H I absorption towards the magellanic cloud foreground using ASKAP
    Hiep Nguyen, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, James Dempsey, and 21 more authors
    MNRAS, Oct 2024
  2. MNRAS
    Probing the magnetized gas distribution in galaxy groups and the cosmic web with POSSUM Faraday rotation measures
    Craig S. Anderson, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, L. Rudnick, and 21 more authors
    MNRAS, Oct 2024
  3. A&A
    Dispersion and rotation measures from fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies based on the TNG50 simulation
    Timea Orsolya Kovacs, Sui Ann Mao, Aritra Basu, and 4 more authors
    A&A, Oct 2024
  4. MNRAS
    Magnetised HI superbubbles in the Small Magellanic Cloud revealed by the POSSUM pilot survey
    S. Lyla Jung, A. Seta, J. M. Price, and 13 more authors
    MNRAS, Sep 2024
  5. A&A
    The Galactic latitude dependency of Faraday complexity in the S-PASS/ATCA RM catalogue
    S. Ranchod, S. A. Mao, R. Deane, and 4 more authors
    A&A, Jun 2024
  6. ApJ
    A Galactic Eclipse: The Small Magellanic Cloud Is Forming Stars in Two Superimposed Systems
    Claire E. Murray, Sten Hasselquist, Joshua E. G. Peek, and 22 more authors
    ApJ, Feb 2024

2023

  1. MNRAS
    Sampling the Faraday rotation sky of TNG50: imprint of the magnetized circumgalactic medium around Milky Way-like galaxies
    S. Lyla Jung, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Rüdiger Pakmor, and 4 more authors
    MNRAS, Nov 2023
  2. MNRAS
    A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence-driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Isabella A. Gerrard, Christoph Federrath, Nickolas M. Pingel, and 12 more authors
    MNRAS, Nov 2023
  3. MNRAS
    The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey - I. System set-up and early results
    P. V. Padmanabh, E. D. Barr, S. S. Sridhar, and 30 more authors
    MNRAS, Sep 2023
  4. ApJS
    RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: Standards for Reporting Polarization and Faraday Rotation Measurements of Radio Sources
    C. L. Van Eck, B. M. Gaensler, S. Hutschenreuter, and 11 more authors
    ApJS, Aug 2023
  5. PASA
    The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) first data release
    Alec J. M. Thomson, David McConnell, Emil Lenc, and 23 more authors
    PASA, Aug 2023
  6. MNRAS
    H I filaments as potential compass needles? Comparing the magnetic field structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud to the orientation of GASKAP-H I filaments
    Y. K. Ma, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. E. Clark, and 12 more authors
    MNRAS, May 2023

2022

  1. ApJ
    Structure in the Magnetic Field of the Milky Way Disk and Halo Traced by Faraday Rotation
    John M. Dickey, Jennifer West, Alec J. M. Thomson, and 14 more authors
    ApJ, Nov 2022