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Containerised applications can improve modularity when interfacing hardware from different vendors across a variety of machines.
Theme
- Instrumentation
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Jesse Cranney, Supervisor
- Dr Michael Copeland, Supervisor
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
Dust in the Milky Way affects astronomical observations. Here we try too improve our knowledge of its distribution.
Theme
- Galactic archaeology
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 archaeology
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
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
- Instrumentation
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor
- Dr Joice Mathew, Supervisor
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
- Instrumentation
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Dr Andrew Battisti, Supervisor
- Dr Joice Mathew, Supervisor
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 archaeology
- Stellar and planetary astronomy
Student intake
Open for Bachelor, Honours students
People
- Associate Professor Luca Casagrande, Supervisor
This honours thesis project was based on data obtained from the HAT-South survey. The HAT-South project is a survey of the southern sky with telescopes in Chile, South Africa and Australia, taking 240 second exposures with a 4.5 minute cadence.
Theme
- Stellar and planetary astronomy
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
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
We identified four very promising HAT-South candidates based on their photomet- ric and reconnaissance spectroscopic measurements. In addition, of the candidates followed-up by our spectroscopic observations, 26 have been passed on for high resolution radial velocity measurements. These promising candidates will be followed up with 4-8m class telescopes to be confirmed as true transiting planets.
Theme
- Stellar and planetary astronomy
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 archaeology
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos
Even from our telescopes on the tops of high mountains, the Earth’s atmosphere blurs observations reducing their clarity.
Theme
- Instrumentation
People
- Professor Robert Sharp, Researcher
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
This research project employs the WiFeS spectrograph on the ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring to measure nebular chemical abundances in isolated gas-rich dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume.
Theme
- Structure and evolution of the Cosmos