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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 1 - 15 of 17 project(s). Are magnetic fields the scaffolds of galaxies? 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 archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students People Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Supervisor Read more Formation History of the Milky Way from Stellar Observables To investigate the role of mergers with smaller galaxies in shaping our Milky Way by using the data from stellar surveys and cosmological simulations of the NIHAO suite to identify stellar remnants of galaxies that merged with the Milky Way and explain their role in building the main components of the Milky Way. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Sven Buder, Supervisor Read more Gas motions and excitation in edge-on barred galaxies The goal of the project would be to analyse the spectra and determine the underlying reason for the different spectra of the two orbit families. Theme Galactic archaeology Read more Student intake Open for PhD students People Professor Ken Freeman, Supervisor Read more Nearby probes of the distant halo of the Milky Way: sub-dwarf M stars 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 Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students Read more Pulsars as a probe of the ionised gas in the Milky Way In this project, the student would study both the spectral and structural properties of the thermal electron density and magnetic fields in the ionised gas phase of the Milky Way. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Amit Seta, Supervisor Read more Pulsars as a probe of the ionised gas in the Milky Way In this project, the student would study both the spectral and structural properties of the thermal electron density and magnetic fields in the ionised gas phase of the Milky Way. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Amit Seta, Supervisor Read more Satellite galaxies as probe of structure formation in our cosmic backyard Our team is looking for enthusiastic Honours, Masters and PhD students with a strong background in Maths, Physics, or Computer Science who want to work on some of the most important questions currently discussed in near-field cosmology community. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students People Professor Helmut Jerjen, Supervisor Read more Taking the Temperature of a galaxy You will use new data from the Australian SKA Pathfinder survey, GASKAP-HI to help take the temperature of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. PhD & Masters students on this project will have the opportunity to be among the first users of ASKAP. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students People Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Supervisor Read more Taking the temperature of red giant stars in Globular clusters The effective temperature is one of the most fundamental parameters of a star, and its precise determination is crucial for a number of purposes, e.g., from measuring chemical abundances and ages, to improving stellar and atmosphere models. Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for PhD students People Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, Supervisor Read more The chemistry of M dwarfs from colours M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the universe, and prime targets for detecting Earth-like planets. Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for PhD students People Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, Supervisor Read more The Oldest Stars in the Universe We are looking for ambitious students keen to join the project. They can be involved in different aspects, both observational and theoretical/computational Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for PhD students People Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, Supervisor Read more The Origins of Elements with Next-Generation Stellar Spectroscopy This project delves deep into understanding how stars create elements, contributing to unraveling the mysteries surrounding the origins of elements by extracting and tracing the element compositions of millions of stars using cutting-edge spectroscopic surveys. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Sven Buder, Supervisor Read more Understanding the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre’s giant outflow The student will model the gamma-ray emission around the Milky Way's central bubble. Theme Galactic archaeology Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Roland Crocker, Supervisor Read more Where does Galactic antimatter come from? In this project you will use a new cosmic ray propagation code, CRIPTIC, to model the injection, transport, and final annihilation of positrons in the interstellar medium of the inner Galaxy. Theme Black hole phenomenaGalactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students People Dr Roland Crocker, Supervisor Professor Mark Krumholz, Supervisor Read more Where does Galactic antimatter come from? In this project you will use a new cosmic ray propagation code, CRIPTIC, to model the injection, transport, and final annihilation of positrons in the interstellar medium of the inner Galaxy. Theme Black hole phenomenaGalactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students People Dr Roland Crocker, Supervisor Professor Mark Krumholz, Supervisor Read more Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »