Future Projects
Supervisors:
Professor Steven Tingay
Professor Peter Hall
Dr James Biggs
Dr Hayley Bignall
Dr Nathan Clarke
Dr Wiebke Ebeling
Dr Leith Godfrey
Dr Nadia Kudryavtseva
Dr Jean-Pierre Macquart
Dr James Miller-Jones
Dr Stephen Ord
Dr Shantanu Padhi
Dr Cormac Reynolds
Dr Franz Schlagenhaufer
Dr Roberta Soria
Dr Cath Trott
Dr Randall Wayth
Dr Andrew Williams
Introduction
The Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University of Technology is engaged in the following broad areas:
- Technology development for the next generation of radio astronomy instruments, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and SKA pathfinder instruments, Very Long Baseline Interferomery (VLBI) and e-VLBI (using high speed optical fibre connections between telescopes), and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA).
- Algorithm development for the calibration and operation of these telescopes.
- Fundamental studies in astronomy and astrophysics, using existing facilities such as VLBI arrays, the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), near Narrabri in NSW, and overseas radio and optical telescopes, including space-based instruments at high energies (i.e. SWIFT and GLAST). Areas such as supermassive black holes, supernova remnants, galactic X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, and pulsars will be covered, as well as new areas of radio astronomy targeting the transient radio sky. Research will be conducted in the radio, optical, and high energy photon regimes.
Upcoming projects are usually released by project supervisors during the second half of the year. Information on upcoming project opportunities may be found under individual supervisors.
For previous astronomy projects at Curtin, see cira.ivec.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/pastproj/start
