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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 31 - 45 of 103 project(s). Exploring Galactic magnetism through radio polarization Magnetic fields are present throughout the universe on all scales: from planets and stars, star-forming clusters and spiral arms, entire galaxies, to galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments. Theme Galactic archaeologyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students People Dr Cameron Van Eck, Supervisor Read more Exploring the Ultraviolet Extinction Landscape: A Mission Concept for Probing Interstellar Medium Composition in the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies This project aims to conceptualize a UV astronomical space mission to explore the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Milky Way and nearby Local Group Galaxies. Utilizing recent UV coating and detector advancements, the proposed mission involves high-throughput, compact UV spectroscopic instruments. Theme InstrumentationStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor Dr Joice Mathew, Supervisor Read more Exploring the Ultraviolet Extinction Landscape: A Mission Concept for Probing Interstellar Medium Composition in the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies This project aims to conceptualize a UV astronomical space mission to explore the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Milky Way and nearby Local Group Galaxies. Utilizing recent UV coating and detector advancements, the proposed mission involves high-throughput, compact UV spectroscopic instruments. Theme InstrumentationStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor Dr Joice Mathew, Supervisor Read more Extended Main-sequence Turn-off in Galactic Open Clusters Ultraviolet photometry has revealed that young open clusters in the Milky Way display extended main sequence turn-off in the colour magnitude diagram. Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students People Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, 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 HI Absorption-Emission Fitting: A New Approach This technical project aims to develop a new approach for fitting absorption and emission spectra simultaneously, employing Gradient Descent and Bayesian methods. Theme Structure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Student intake Open for Honours students Observatory Mount Stromlo Observatory People Dr Hiep Nguyen, Supervisor Read more Infrared sensor systems for Astronomy and Earth Observation from space Or team is working with major national and international detector vendors to develop novel new sensor systems that solve tricky problems not only for astronomy but also for more down-to-Earth issues such as Bushfire Hazard management from Low Earth Orbit remote sensing. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Honours, PhD students People Professor Robert Sharp, Supervisor Read more Invar Cold Spray Creep Measurement CSIRO has a cold spray research group which is developing cold sprayed Invar. This project will be developing an optical metrology setup to measure the creep of the cold sprayed Invar in collaboration with CSIRO Lab22 in Clayton, Victoria. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours, Master students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Israel Vaughn, Supervisor Read more Investigating Spatial Light Modulators and Pyramid Wavefront Sensing This project aims to address the potential of Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) as highly nonlinear optical elements, including their potential use in pyramid wavefront sensing. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor Read more Investigating Spatial Light Modulators and Pyramid Wavefront Sensing This project aims to address the potential of Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) as highly nonlinear optical elements, including their potential use in pyramid wavefront sensing. Theme Instrumentation Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor Dr Noelia Martinez Rey, Supervisor Read more Investigating the interaction between supermassive black holes and their host spiral galaxies Using both the Wide-Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) on the ANU 2.3m telescope and the 1.4 GHz radio band on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the student will address how the radio jets from the supermassive black hole interact with the Seyfert host galaxy to affect the evolution of the galaxy. Theme Black hole phenomenaStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Read more Just another brick in the halo Accreted stellar populations are comprised of the remnants of destroyed galaxies, and often dominate the 'stellar haloes' of galaxies such as the Milky Way. Theme Galactic archaeologyStellar and planetary astronomy Read more Student intake Open for Bachelor, Honours students People Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, Supervisor Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Next page Next › Last page Last »