Research 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. 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 - 9 of 9 project(s). Australian Plasma Thruster The Australian Plasma Thruster (APT) will help deep-space probes travel for longer and further into space and be used to de-orbit satellites at the end of their lifetimes. The engine of the thruster will be based on ANU Professor Christine Charles's Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT), which is the first of its kind in the world. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Read more Data Archives Data archives Theme Black hole phenomenaGalactic archaeologyInstrumentationStellar and planetary astronomyStructure and evolution of the Cosmos Read more Read more Freezing-out atmospheric blurring with Lucky Imaging Even from our telescopes on the tops of high mountains, the Earth’s atmosphere blurs observations reducing their clarity. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Professor Robert Sharp, Researcher Read more Giant Magellan Telescope Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS) GMTIFS is a near-infrared imager and integral-field spectrograph. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Read more GMTIFS: 3DHD instrumentation for Astronomy We are building a powerful new instrument to work with the Giant Magellan Telescope to record images and spectra ten times sharper than possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre People Professor Robert Sharp, Researcher Read more Greenhouse Gas Monitor The Australian company ViPAC Engineers & Scientists Pty. Ltd. is leading a project to develop a space-based monitoring system to improve the measurement of greenhouse gases, funded by under the government's Australian Space Research Program (ASRP). Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Read more Laser tomography adaptive optics subsystem for GMT The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is being designed and built by an international consortium of institutions and will be the largest optical telescope in the world when it is completed around 2020. Theme Instrumentation Read more Read more Site monitoring at Mount Stromlo To optimally build and operate adaptive optics systems, we need to understand the typical atmospheric conditions on the site where the telescope is built. Therefore, the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) is conducting a site characterisation campaign at Mount Stromlo. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Read more Veloce Rosso Veloce Rosso will be Australia’s next premier astronomical instrument. Theme Instrumentation Read more Centre Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Read more