UKZN PhD astronomer finds a new radio halo

Dr Kenda Knowles, a Claude Leon postdoctoral researcher at the Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit, has found evidence for a new radio halo in a low-mass galaxy cluster. Her paper on the detection, based on her PhD thesis work, was published this month in “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society”, an international peer-reviewed astronomy journal (open access arXiv version of the article here).

Article sourced from: SKA South Africa.