
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.
Displaying 61 - 75 of 122 project(s).
This project aims to demonstrate the advantages of LGS-AO for deep space optical communications.
Theme
- Instrumentation
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- David Brodrick, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- David Brodrick, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
This project aims to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models) to enhance the usability of systems engineering documentation, including system requirement documents and flowdowns, interface documents, design documents, and reliability assessments.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- David Brodrick, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
The Milky Way's magnetic field is critical for shaping the structure and evolution of the galaxy, regulating star formation, and transporting cosmic rays. Understanding the interaction between the magnetic field and atomic HI gas is key to unraveling the galaxy's dynamics and evolution.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
With this project we will be using the newly automated ANU 2.3m telescope and the powerful WiFeS optical spectrograph to perform a time-series measurement of luminous active galaxies (AGN) using the technique of Quasar Reverberation Mapping.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
- Instrumentation
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
A student undertaking this project will investigate the potential customisations of lenslet arrays afforded by optical meta-surfaces, and propose designs to be fabricated in the Research School of Physics at ANU.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students
People
- Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor
This honours research developed numerical models of the inner radio structure of Centaurus A using the FLASH relativistic hydrodynamics code, and compared the predictions with observations of the galaxy.
Theme
- Black hole phenomena
Modelling the oscillations of Red Clump stars using stellar evolution codes to study their internal structure.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
Student intake
Open for Honours, Master students
Observatory
People
- Dr Claudia Reyes, Supervisor
- Professor Melissa Ness, Supervisor
Modelling the oscillations of Red Clump stars using stellar evolution codes to study their internal structure.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
Student intake
Open for Honours, Master students
Observatory
People
- Dr Claudia Reyes, Supervisor
- Professor Melissa Ness, Supervisor
This has wide potential applications to chemical and dynamical studies of galaxies from two-dimensional integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopy.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
We have recently demonstrated a novel technique to recover sub-dwarf M stars from the combination of VISTA infra-red and SkyMapper photometry.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
This Honours project was designed to complement the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectroscopy (HERMES) project being undertake at the AAT.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology