Science

AVAILABILITY	PROJECT	SUPERVISOR	STATUS
International and Domestic	Probing the First Galaxies via Neutral Hydrogen	Nick Seymour	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	From Observation to Mitigation: Leveraging LSST, the Global Fireball Observatory, and DREAMS to Prepare for Asteroid Impacts	Hadrien Devillepoix	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	Multi-wavelength approach to uncover the origin of extreme emission line galaxies	Anshu Gupta	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	High-resolution imaging of time-variable radio jets from feeding black holes	James Miller-Jones	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	Extreme astrophysics through the lens of next generation of astronomical telescopes	Arash Bahramian	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	Searching for exotic pulsars in close binary systems	Ramesh Bhat	APPLY HERE
International and Domestic	Confirming The Redshift Range Of Radio Sources Invisible In Optical And Infrared	Jordan Collier	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Exploring the early Universe with Radio Telescopes	Cathryn Trott	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Monster Black Holes at the Dawn of Time	Nick Seymour	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Fast, Faster, Fastest: Probing The Physics Of Fast Radio Bursts Using high-time-resolution data from the CRAFT Survey	Clancy James	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Black hole population of the Milky Way	Arash Bahramian	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Using stars destroyed by supermassive black holes to learn how the biggest black holes launch jets and outflows	Adelle Goodwin	APPLY HERE
Domestic	Unlocking the secrets of pulsar emission mechanism	Ramesh Bhat	APPLY HERE

Our staff work across five primary science themes, as outlined. These themes tie in directly to SKA science drivers and working groups, with our staff and students possessing the necessary observational, theoretical and computational expertise to enable high-impact results in these fields.

The CIRA science program is focused heavily on radio astronomy, and closely aligned with several of the major projects planned for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). In particular, our staff and students make extensive use of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), for which Curtin is the lead and managing organisation on behalf of a broad international consortium. Our close connection and daily interactions with the CIRA Engineering group enable our scientists to make the best use of the telescope, and to implement novel and innovative operating modes and experiments. To handle the large volumes of data flowing from both the MWA and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), our scientists make extensive use of the nearby Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, as well as other local and national high-performance computing facilities.

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