Dr. Yik Ki (Jackie) Ma's Webpage

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CSO 1.31

Mount Stromlo Observatory

Cotter Road, Weston

ACT 2611, Australia


I am a research fellow at the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU). My primary research interest is the role of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium, as well as in the evolution of galaxies.

My work often involve using world-class radio telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the Parkes “Murriyang” 64-m Radio Telescope, MeerKAT, and the Very Large Array (VLA).

In particular, I am a core member of two on-going sky surveys using the ASKAP radio telescope – GASKAP-HI that measures the atomic gas distribution in the Milky Way and the Magellanic System, and POSSUM that explores the magnetic Universe in the southern sky. Both of these are open collaborations – please do reach out to me if you would like to be involved!

This webpage is currently a work in progress.


Recent Publications

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
  2. PASA
    GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of HI emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud
    N. M. Pingel, J. Dempsey, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, and 53 more authors
    PASA, Feb 2022
  3. MNRAS
    A radio polarization study of magnetic fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud
    J. D. Livingston, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. A. Mao, and 4 more authors
    MNRAS, Feb 2022
  4. A&A
    The Galactic Faraday rotation sky 2020
    S. Hutschenreuter, C. S. Anderson, S. Betti, and 34 more authors
    A&A, Jan 2022