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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 46 - 52 of 52 project(s). Precision astrometric reference source for optical calibration This project aims to research and potentially develop the design of calibration light sources for use in the MAVIS instrument (currently being designed for the ESO VLT). Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Mr Gaston Gausachs, Supervisor Read more Precision astrometric reference source for optical calibration This project aims to research and potentially develop the design of calibration light sources for use in the MAVIS instrument (currently being designed for the ESO VLT). Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Mr Gaston Gausachs, Supervisor Read more Reinforcement learning for phasing giant telescopes The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) requires real-time phasing of its primary mirror segments. Each instrument of GMT is required to provide phasing telemetry from guide-star images. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Dr Charles Gretton Read more Simulating integral field spectrograph images for MAVIS In order to further the MAVIS design, an image simulator was built in Python, allowing star catalogs to be fed in, which are used to generate realistic MAVIS images. MAVIS now requires an IFU simulator to be developed, providing realistic IFU images from star catalogs. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Dr Trevor Mendel, Supervisor Read more Simulating integral field spectrograph images for MAVIS In order to further the MAVIS design, an image simulator was built in Python, allowing star catalogs to be fed in, which are used to generate realistic MAVIS images. MAVIS now requires an IFU simulator to be developed, providing realistic IFU images from star catalogs. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Dr Trevor Mendel, Supervisor Read more The Pyxis Space Interferometer Prototype In this project, you will lead development of a key sub system (optical, mechanical, computational) to enable novel ultra-high resolution, visible light instrument Pyxis: a prototype for an astrophysical space interferometer. Theme InstrumentationStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students People Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor Professor Michael Ireland, Supervisor Read more The Pyxis Space Interferometer Prototype In this project, you will lead development of a key sub system (optical, mechanical, computational) to enable novel ultra-high resolution, visible light instrument Pyxis: a prototype for an astrophysical space interferometer. Theme InstrumentationStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students People Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor Professor Michael Ireland, Supervisor Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4