User:Robminchin

"Radio astronomer Robert Minchin shared photos of people putting wooden and metal storm shutters over the control room windows [at Arecibo Observatory] … But around 11:05 p.m. Tuesday, Minchin said he'd lost power. “Will be tweeting by SMS if network stays up,” he said. As of Thursday afternoon, that was the last message he'd sent."

I am a Senior Scientist with USRA at NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), having previously worked for USRA and Cornell University at Arecibo Observatory, and at Cardiff University on HIPASS and other surveys for extra-galactic neutral hydrogen. I was first author on the paper announcing the discovery of the dark galaxy candidate VIRGOHI 21 in 2005    and a follow-up paper carrying out high-resolution synthesis imaging of it using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in 2007. I have also been involved in the discoveries of methanimine in Arp 220 in 2008  and of a nuclear outburst in NGC 660 in 2013. I lead the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey, which discovered a giant bridge of hydrogen between galaxies in 2014 and a large ring of gas close to the Triangulum Galaxy in 2016.

I have also been quoted in the media commenting on research at Cambridge University on the possibility of "tepid" dark matter, on the funding problems at Arecibo Observatory, on the opening of the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope and on the science being done with Arecibo. I was interviewed for Tom Scott's YouTube channel in 2017, and for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine in 2018 and 2019.

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