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The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
- Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor
- Dr Elisa Jager, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
- Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor
- Dr Elisa Jager, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
- Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor
- Dr Elisa Jager, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
- Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor
- Dr Elisa Jager, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will assist with the development of instrumentation for the optical communication team
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Francis Bennet, Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Travouillon, Supervisor
- Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor
- Dr Elisa Jager, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will review the existing methods, and assess their suitability in MAVIS, including implementation and testing of a method to actively cancel telescope vibrations with the adaptive optics control loop.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Julien Bernard, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will review the existing methods, and assess their suitability in MAVIS, including implementation and testing of a method to actively cancel telescope vibrations with the adaptive optics control loop.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Julien Bernard, Supervisor
The AITC requires a generalised adaptive optics (AO) test bench in order to test experimental and research AO designs and technologies, as well as to verify AO instrumentation. The test bench will be built using in house optical components and be driven by software written in Python.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
The AITC requires a generalised adaptive optics (AO) test bench in order to test experimental and research AO designs and technologies, as well as to verify AO instrumentation. The test bench will be built using in house optical components and be driven by software written in Python.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
The AITC requires a generalised adaptive optics (AO) test bench in order to test experimental and research AO designs and technologies, as well as to verify AO instrumentation. The test bench will be built using in house optical components and be driven by software written in Python.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
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 archaeology
- Stellar and planetary astronomy
In this project you will use existing and new data to understand the nature of filamentary structure in galaxies and how they relate to magnetic fields.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Supervisor
This project aims to determine what source is dominating in massive galaxies 4 Gyrs ago using MAGPI (MUSE), EMU (ASKAP) surveys and eROSITA public data.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for Honours students
Observatory
People
- Associate Professor Emily Wisnioski, Supervisor
- Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor
This project aims to determine what source is dominating in massive galaxies 4 Gyrs ago using MAGPI (MUSE), EMU (ASKAP) surveys and eROSITA public data.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for Honours students
Observatory
People
- Associate Professor Emily Wisnioski, Supervisor
- Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor
Measuring asteroid properties with the Kepler Space Telescope to find Future Asteroid Mining Targets
Theme
- Stellar and planetary astronomy
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
Observatory
People
- Associate Professor Bradley Tucker, Supervisor