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.

The Gaia mission has revolutionised our understanding of the Milky Way halo, but the biggest discoveries, which rely on individual abundances, are yet to be made.

In the spectra of distant stars, we can often find a series of absorption features, such as Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) or those of neutral atomic potassium, K I. Although the exact carriers of DIBs are still a matter of debate, various candidates have been proposed over the years.

We are currently collecting data for DEBASS, which will be the ultimate low-redshift sample of type Ia supernova and will be used to constrain the properties of dark energy.

We currently have a sample of 525 supernovae. All but 70 of them have redshifts. This project will search online catalogues for the missing redshifts.

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.

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.

The kinematics and morphology of typically massive disk galaxies has changed dramatically over the last ~9 Gyrs.

The goal of this project is to make predictions for the observable gamma-ray signatures of different plasma physics models for cosmic ray transport.

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.

Data archives

The DREAMS telescope is a 50cm class, wide-field, infrared telescope dedicated to the search of transient event. In this project we will work on developing its data reduction pipeline to increase the scientific output of the telescope and make it the ideal infrared complement to the Vera Rubin Observatory.

This project aims to study quenching in a unique rejuvenated/quenching galaxy found in deep Hubble/James Webb Space Telescope imaging data.

This project supports the development, upgrade, and operation of the ANU Quantum Optical Ground Station (QOGS) to enable an Australian deep-space optical ground station for engagement with international missions including NASA’s Artemis II.

This project involves instrument modelling, science simulation, electro-optical, and system design of a compact spatial heterodyne spectrograph instrument.

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.