Research Research projects Discover the forefront of astronomy and astrophysics through our projects, ranging from deep-space communication systems to groundbreaking adaptive optics. Explore our diverse, ongoing research initiatives shaping the future of space science. Keywords Academic - Any -Associate Professor Christian WolfAssociate Professor Emily WisnioskiAssociate Professor Francis BennetAssociate Professor François RigautAssociate Professor Luca CasagrandeAssociate Professor Tony TravouillonDr Amit SetaDr Andrew BattistiDr Bradley TuckerDr Cameron Van EckDr Craig AndersonDr Doris GrosseDr Hiep NguyenDr Israel VaughnDr Jesse CranneyDr Joice MathewDr Kathryn GrashaDr Marc WhiteDr Melissa NessDr Michael CopelandDr Noelia Martinez ReyDr Roland CrockerDr Sven BuderDr Thomas NordlanderDr Trevor Mendel Elisa JagerMr David BrodrickProfessor Anna MooreProfessor Brian SchmidtProfessor Céline d'OrgevilleProfessor Chris LidmanProfessor Christoph FederrathProfessor Helmut JerjenProfessor Ken FreemanProfessor Mark KrumholzProfessor Matthew CollessProfessor Michael IrelandProfessor Naomi McClure-GriffithsProfessor Paul FrancisProfessor Robert SharpProfessor Stuart Wyithe Yuxiang Qin Advanced search Project type - Any - Not open for students Open for students Status - Any - Potential Current Completed Study level - Any - Bachelor Graduate certificate Honours Master MPhil PhD Research theme - Any - Black hole phenomena Galactic archaeology Instrumentation Stellar and planetary astronomy Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 project(s). Archaeology of the Milky Way Ambitious students will investigate optimal ways to measure the stellar properties (eg Teff, age, mass) and chemical composition of this immense amount of data. Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Read more Finding Young Stellar Associations with Chronostar In this project you will develop use and further develop the Chronostar tool to identify thousands of previously unknown young stars near the sun - ideal targets for future exoplanet detection campaigns. Theme Stellar and planetary astronomy Read more People Professor Michael Ireland, Supervisor Read more Finding Young Stellar Associations with Chronostar In this project you will develop use and further develop the Chronostar tool to identify thousands of previously unknown young stars near the sun - ideal targets for future exoplanet detection campaigns. Theme Stellar and planetary astronomy Read more People Professor Michael Ireland, Supervisor Read more Investigating the interaction between supermassive black holes and their host spiral galaxies Using both the Wide-Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) on the ANU 2.3m telescope and the 1.4 GHz radio band on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the student will address how the radio jets from the supermassive black hole interact with the Seyfert host galaxy to affect the evolution of the galaxy. Theme Black hole phenomenaStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Read more Radio galaxy environments In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Theme Black hole phenomenaStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Read more Radio spectra of galaxies undergoing feedback by relativistic jets The main aim of this project is to parallelise an existing Fortran program to take advantage of the parallel processing environment of the supercomputer raijin, located on the ANU campus. Theme Black hole phenomenaStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more People Professor Geoff Bicknell, Supervisor Read more Red spirals - how star formation fades in galaxies This project will study red spirals in detail, and aim to understand what levels of star formation persist and for how long. We will use optical and infrared data to measure current rates of star formation and find out what we have been missing due to dust extinction. Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more People Associate Professor Christian Wolf, Supervisor Read more Star Clusters as Engines of Ionisation and their HII Regions in NGC 7793 Star Clusters as Engines of Ionisation and their HII Regions in NGC 7793 Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Kathryn Grasha, Supervisor Read more