1. Historical Radio Astronomy Working Group Report to C 40 IAU General Asssembly August 6, 2015 Honolulu, HI Ken Kellermann NRAO

2. Outline Goals of the HRA WG 2012-2015 Triennial Report – Deceased radio astronomers – Conferences – Publications – Preservation – HRA WG Web site Current and Future Status Proposed National Reporters Future Activities

3. HRA WG established in 2003 as Joint WG of C40/41 Div X(B)/XII(C) Maintain an ongoing bibliography of publications relevant to the history of radio astronomy Document and preserve surviving historically- significant radio telescopes and associated instrumentation Document the careers of deceased radio astronomers – Biographical Memoirs

4. Publications & Research Books – 2013, Baars, International Radio Telescope Projects – 2013, Goss, Making Waves-Ruby Payne Scott – 2015, Orchiston, History of New Zealand Astronomy – Schwartz and Zensus – History of MPIfR (in German) Published papers – Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (> 25 papers) – Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India – Nancius Hambugenisis – German Radio Astronomy – Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Martyn, Mills, Minnett, Piddington, Smerd) – URSI Bulletin No. 348 : Baars, History of Flux Density Calibration in Radio Astronomy,

5. Conferences The Modern Radio Universe – Porcas, History of EVN, 30 Years of Fringes 10 th EVN Symposium – Porcas, History of the EVN 2013 Resolving the Sky – Papers by Goss, McAdam, Kellermann, Matveyenko, Booth, Ekers, Noordam, van Ardenne, Schilizzi, Hirabayshi, Hong 2015 JIVE Inaugural Sympoisum – Papers by Booth, Schilizzi, Miley, Kellermann – History of VLBI 2015 IAU Symposium Extragalactic Jets – Hazard et al. 3C 273 The First Quasar – Kellermann, The Road to Quasars 2014, URSI GA – Ekers, Enabling Technologies for Modern Radio Astronomy 2013 50 Years of Radio Astronomy at TIFR, India – Swarup, Reminiscences and Highlights – Goss, Role of J. L. Pawsey 2015, The Golden Years of Radio Astronomy, IAU GA

7. Karl Jansky Site and Memorial Memorial Established 1998 473 acre Bell Labs site sold to – Lucent Technologies – Alcatel - Lucent – Somerset Development Community Center Housing National Historic Landmark

8. Bracewell Piers and Sundial VLA sundial -2013 10/32 concrete pillars

9. HRA WG Web site http://rahist.nrao.edu/ Membership Triennial Reports – 2006, 2009, 2012, (2015) Grote Reber Medalists Biographical Memoirs Related Resources : – Sullivan: http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/woody/hra.html http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/woody/hra.html NRAO Archives : http://www.nrao.edu/archives/http://www.nrao.edu/archives/ – Woody Sullivan interviews with 255 radio astronomers – NRAO Institutional Records Reber – Papers of Backer, Bracewell, Brown, Burke,Cohen,Conklin, Ewen, Findlay, Gordon, Heeschen, Hogg, Kellermann, Krauss, Reber, Shalloway, Sullivan,Thompson, Ulvestad, Vanden Bout, Wade – Finding aid: http://jump2.nrao.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/archivesearch.htmhttp://jump2.nrao.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/archivesearch.htm

10. Status of the HRA WG 2012 GA C41/Div XII (C) affiliation unclear All Commissions & WG will be dissolved at end of GA C40 will morph into CB-4 – WG included in new proposal C41 will morph into CC-3 – WG included in new proposal – 1 slide WG report will be included in C41 report to Div C August 5 HRA WG Business Meeting – Continue Working (Functional) Group – Maintain joint status with Commission on History of Astronomy – Establish Inter-Union WG with URSI

11. Proposed National Reporters 2015-2018 Rod Davies (UK) Rod Davies (UK) Ron Ekers (Australia) Ron Ekers (Australia) Pierre Encrenaz (France) Pierre Encrenaz (France) Luigina Feretti (Italy) Luigina Feretti (Italy) Leonid Gurvits Masato Ishiguro (Japan) Ken Kellermann (US) Wayne Orchiston (Southeast Asia) Gopal Krishna (India) Gopal Krishna (India) Richard Schilizzi (Vice Chair) Richard Schilizzi (Vice Chair) Richard Strom (Netherlands) Richard Strom (Netherlands) Jasper Wall (Canada) Richard Wielebinski (Germany)

12. Proposed WG Leadership (2015-2018) Chair - Richard Wielebinski Vice Chair - Richard Schilizzi Secretary - Ellen Bouton Past-Chair - Ken Kellermann

13. Current and Future Activities Conferences – Ekersfest: September 2016 HRA WG Web site NRAO Archives – Sullivan interviews – Processing of papers – Acquire remaining Reber papers Jansky Site Restoration and Historical Landmark Preserve early French radio telescopes (Encrenaz) Books in Preparation – Peter Robertson, John Bolton - Pioneering a New Astronomy – Goss, Ekers, Hooker Joe. Pawsey – Frater et al. Christiansen, Mills, Wild, Bracewell – Kellermann, Bouton, Smith, Open Skies – Jarrell, Wall, Griffen, Robishaw: Canadian Radio Astronomy – Schwartz and Zensus: History of MPIfR (English translation) PhD Dissertations – Peter Robertson, John Bolton – Martin George, Early low-frequency radio astronomy in Tasmania