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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 16 - 30 of 84 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 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 Asteroids studies with the Kepler Space Telescope for Future Asteroid Mining Measuring asteroid properties with the Kepler Space Telescope to find Future Asteroid Mining Targets Theme Stellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Bradley Tucker, Supervisor Read more Bulk motions in the nearby Universe and the approach to homogeneity This project aims to measure both distances and velocities for 100,000 galaxies and so map the visible and dark matter within a billion light-years. Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Professor Matthew Colless, Supervisor Read more Bulk motions in the nearby Universe and the approach to homogeneity This project aims to measure both distances and velocities for 100,000 galaxies and so map the visible and dark matter within a billion light-years. Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Professor Matthew Colless, Supervisor Read more Component Testing of Adaptive Optics Tracking and Pushing System The successful applicant will join the ANU team and will participate in the design and testing of the Adaptive Optics Tracking and Pushing (AOTP) system. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students People Dr Doris Grosse, Supervisor Read more Computational astrophysics studies in turbulence, magnetic fields, and star/galaxy formation and evolution Study of the statistics of turbulent, magnetised gases, relevant for the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium, the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies, using a combination of supercomputer simulations, theory, analytical calculations, and comparison to observations. Theme Stellar and planetary astronomyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Professor Christoph Federrath, Supervisor Read more Connections between morphology and kinematics at cosmic noon The kinematics and morphology of typically massive disk galaxies has changed dramatically over the last ~9 Gyrs. Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Associate Professor Emily Wisnioski, Supervisor Read more Constraining cosmic ray dynamics with gamma-ray data The goal of this project is to make predictions for the observable gamma-ray signatures of different plasma physics models for cosmic ray transport. Theme Stellar and planetary astronomyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for PhD students People Professor Mark Krumholz, Supervisor Read more Cosmic Magnetism and the Universe’s Biggest ‘Dye Tracer’ Experiments: Deciphering The Impact and Lifecycles of Outflows from Supermassive Black Holes. In each project, students will utilise data from some of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes, including ASKAP, Parkes, and the Jansky VLA to study the magnetised gas in and around the radio lobes inflated by supermassive black holes. Theme Black hole phenomenaStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Craig Anderson, Supervisor Read more Double stars observations at Mount Stromlo Observatory for satellite laser communications The aim of this research is to determine the correlation of the tip-tilt to confirm that the downlink can be used as a reliable reference source for adaptive optics applied to the uplink signal. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, PhD students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, 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 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 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 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next page Next › Last page Last »