Pawsey documents
TitlePawsey documents
ReferenceMS249
Date1945
Creator Joseph Lade Pawsey
Scope and ContentA collection of Pawsey’s original work sheets and calculations, from 1945-1946 with data from Collaroy and Dover Heights concerning radio observations of the sun. They show the earliest radio astronomy observations made in Australia.
-Brown folder titled, 'RAAF The Collaroy Solar Data 1945-1946'. On interior of folder four sticky notes (possibly from 2014 author). Text written in pen including 1968 and 1977.
-Five sheets of graph paper of varying sizes
-One blank page with two hand-drawn pencil graphs titled, 'Replotted'.
-One page of pencil notes titled 'Data fn Fig. 2'.
-One page of lined paper with Ak, Sunrise, Sum % columns. Titled 'Rechecks Collaroy'.
-One page of typed text titled, 'Solar Noise Observed at Collaroy: Frequency - 200 Mc/s' with headings 'Sunrise Observations and Sunset Observations'.
-Six pages of typed pages with pencil annotations titled, 'Solar Noise Collaroy 200 Mc/s: total Incident Power Density'.
-2 pages of lined paper titled, 'Sunrise Collaroy Histogram'.
-2 pages of lined pages titled, 'Probability'.
-Brown folder titled, 'RAAF The Collaroy Solar Data 1945-1946'. On interior of folder four sticky notes (possibly from 2014 author). Text written in pen including 1968 and 1977.
-Five sheets of graph paper of varying sizes
-One blank page with two hand-drawn pencil graphs titled, 'Replotted'.
-One page of pencil notes titled 'Data fn Fig. 2'.
-One page of lined paper with Ak, Sunrise, Sum % columns. Titled 'Rechecks Collaroy'.
-One page of typed text titled, 'Solar Noise Observed at Collaroy: Frequency - 200 Mc/s' with headings 'Sunrise Observations and Sunset Observations'.
-Six pages of typed pages with pencil annotations titled, 'Solar Noise Collaroy 200 Mc/s: total Incident Power Density'.
-2 pages of lined paper titled, 'Sunrise Collaroy Histogram'.
-2 pages of lined pages titled, 'Probability'.
Persons keyword Joseph Lade Pawsey, Ruby Payne Scott, Lindsay Leslie McCready
SubjectRadio astronomy, Solar flares
Levelfonds
