Prof Naomi McClure-Griffiths
BA (Hons), PhD
Professor at the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics
College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Astronomical And Space Sciences 0201
- Galactic Astronomy 020104
Research interests
I work primariy on the evolution of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. My research group aims to understand how galaxies work by getting at three of their biggest evolutionary drivers: gas evolution, magentism and feedback. We focus in particular on the structure and evolution of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearby Magellanic System.
I am the co-Principal Investigator on the Galactic Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) survey, GASKAP. I am actively involved in scientific planning for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project and a member of the SKA Science and Engineering Advisory Committee.
Biography
I am a native of the USA where I received my undergraduate degree in Physics at Oberlin College in Ohio and completed my PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I migrated to Australia in 2001 as a Bolton Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australia Telescope National Facility, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Oranisation (CSIRO). I held a variety of positions at CSIRO, first an OCE Science Leader from 2006, then Deputy Head of Astrophysics from 2012 and finally, Head of National Facility Science from 2014 until I moved to ANU in early 2015.
Researcher's projects
- Galactic Australian SKA Pathfinder (GASKAP) survey
- The ASKAP Polarization Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM)
- Physics of the interstellar medium
- Magnetic fields in high velocity gas
Available student projects
- The Milky Way's Galactic Wind
- The nature of "dark" gas in the Milky Way
- Magnetic fields in the disk-halo interaction
- Physics of gas cooling in the interstellar medium
- Techniques for early Milky Way observations with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)
Other projects related to gas and magnetic fields in the Milky Way are available, please contact me if interested.
Publications
- Rugel, M, Rahner, D, Beuther, H et al 2019, 'Feedback in W49A diagnosed with radio recombination lines and models', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 622, pp. -.
- Armillotta, L, Krumholz, M, Di Teodoro, E et al 2019, 'The life cycle of the Central Molecular Zone - I. Inflow, star formation, and winds', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 490, no. 3, pp. 4401-4418.
- Anderson, C, Heald, G, O'Sullivan, S et al 2018, 'The extraordinary linear polarisation structure of the southern centaurus a lobe revealed by ASKAP', Galaxies, vol. 6, no. 127, pp. 1-14.
- McClure-Griffiths, N, Denes, H, Dickey, J et al 2018, 'Cold gas outflows from the Small Magellanic Cloud traced with ASKAP', Nature Astronomy, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 901-906.
- Wang, Y, Bihr, S, Rugel, M et al 2018, 'Radio continuum emission in the northern Galactic plane: Sources and spectral indices from the THOR survey', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 619, no. 124, pp. 29pp.
- Thomson, A, McClure-Griffiths, N, Federrath, C, Dickey, J et al 2018, 'Ghost of a shell: Magnetic fields of galactic supershell GSH 006 - 15 + 7', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 479, no. 4, pp. 5620-5637pp.
- Su, H, Macquart, J, Hurley-Walker, N et al 2018, 'Galactic synchrotron distribution derived from 152 HII region absorption features in the full GLEAM survey', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 479, no. 3, pp. 4041-4055pp.
- Denes, H, McClure-Griffiths, N, Dickey, J et al 2018, 'Calibrating the HISA temperature: Measuring the temperature of the Riegel-Crutcher cloud', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 479, no. 2, pp. 1465-1490pp.
- Nguyen, H, Dawson, J, Miville-Deschênes, M et al 2018, 'Dust-Gas Scaling Relations and OH Abundance in the Galactic ISM', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 862, no. 49, pp. 1-18pp.
- Kaczmarek, J, Purcell, C, Gaensler, B et al 2018, 'Revealing the Faraday depth structure of radio galaxy NGC612 with broad-band radio polarimetric observations', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 476, no. 2, pp. 1596-1613pp.
- Li, D, Tang, N, Nguyen, H et al 2018, 'Where is OH and Does It Trace the Dark Molecular Gas (DMG)?', Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 235, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
- Di Teodoro, E, McClure-Griffiths, N, Lockman, F et al 2018, 'Blowing in the Milky Way Wind: Neutral Hydrogen Clouds Tracing the Galactic Nuclear Outflow', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 855, no. 33, pp. 16pp.
- Herron, C, Gaensler, B, Lewis, G et al 2018, 'Advanced Diagnostics for the Study of Linearly Polarized Emission. I. Derivation', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 853, no. 9, pp. 10pp.
- Herron, C, Burkhart, B, Gaensler, B et al 2018, 'Advanced Diagnostics for the Study of Linearly Polarized Emission. II. Application to Diffuse Interstellar Radio Synchrotron Emission', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 855, no. 29, pp. 33pp.
- Mackey, D, Koposov, S, Da Costa, G et al 2017, 'Structured star formation in the Magellanic inter-cloud region', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 472, no. 3, pp. 2975-2989.
- Fukui, Y, Sano, H, Sato, J et al 2017, 'A Detailed Study of the Interstellar Protons toward the TeV gamma-Ray SNR RX J0852.0-4622 (G266.2-1.2, Vela Jr.): The Third Case of the gamma-Ray and ISM Spatial Correspondence', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 850, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
- Green, J, Breen, S, Fuller, G et al 2017, 'The 6-GHz multibeam maser survey - II. Statistical analysis and Galactic distribution of 6668-MHz methanol masers', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 469, no. 2, pp. 1383-1402pp.
- Brown, C, Jordan, C, Dickey, J et al 2017, 'The Southern H II Region Discovery Survey (SHRDS): Pilot Survey', Astronomical Journal, vol. 154, no. 23, pp. 10pp.
- Gronnow, A, Tepper-Garcia, T, Bland-Hawthorn, J et al 2017, 'Magnetized High Velocity Clouds in the Galactic Halo: A New Distance Constraint', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 845, no. 1, pp. 69 (14pp).
- Bannister, K, Shannon, R, Macquart, J et al 2017, 'The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 841, no. 12, pp. 6pp.
- Hill, A, Landecker, T, Carretti, E et al 2017, 'The Fan Region at 1.5 GHz - I. Polarized synchrotron emission extending beyond the Perseus Arm', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 467, no. 4, pp. 4631-4646pp.
- Kaczmarek, J, Purcell, C, Gaensler, B et al 2017, 'Detection of a coherent magnetic field in the Magellanic Bridge through Faraday rotation', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 467, no. 2, pp. 1776-1794pp.
- Herron, C, Federrath, C, Gaensler, B et al 2017, 'Probes of turbulent driving mechanisms in molecular clouds from fluctuations in synchrotron intensity', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 2, pp. 2272-2283pp..
- Su, H, Hurley-Walker, N, Jackson, C et al 2017, 'Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250° < l < 355° from the GLEAM survey with the MWA', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 465, no. 3, pp. 3163-3174pp.
- Herron, C, Geisbuesch, J, Landecker, T et al 2017, 'Polarization Gradient Study of Interstellar Medium Turbulence Using the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 835, no. 2, p. 19.
- Su, H, Hurley-Walker, N, Jackson, C et al 2017, 'Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250° < l < 355° from the GLEAM survey with the MWA', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 465, no. 3, pp. 3163-3174.
- Moss, V., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Lockman, F. J. et al 2017, 'TRACING DENSE and DIFFUSE NEUTRAL HYDROGEN in the HALO of the MILKY WAY', Astrophysical Journal, The, vol. 834, no. 2, pp. -.
- McConnell, D, Allison, J, Bannister, K et al 2016, 'The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: Performance of the Boolardy Engineering Test Array', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 33, no. e042, pp. 17pp.
- Beuther, H, Bihr, S, Rugel, M et al 2016, 'The HI/OH/Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way (THOR) Survey overview and data release 1', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 595, no. A32, pp. 21pp.
- Lockman, F & McClure-Griffiths, N 2016, 'Tracing the Milky Way nuclear wind with 21 cm atomic hydrogen emission', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 826, no. 2, pp. 8pp.
- Bekhti, N, Floer, L, Keller, R et al 2016, 'HI4PI: a full-sky H I survey based on EBHIS and GASS', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 594, no. A116, pp. 15pp.
- McClure-Griffiths, N & Dickey, J 2016, 'Milky way kinematics. II. A uniform inner galaxy H i terminal velocity curve', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 831, no. 2, pp. 8pp.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Disentangling the Origin and Evolution of the Tangled Magellanic Stream (Primary Investigator)
- Think Global, Act Local: Insights into the Evolution of Galaxies (Primary Investigator)
- The Great Escape: The Gaseous Outflow from the Centre of the Milky Way (Primary Investigator)
