Research Overview
The Astrophysics group at the University of Melbourne uses telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays (now even including gravitational waves!), to investigate a diverse set of open questions facing astronomy today. For example, “What happened during inflation in the first instant of the Universe?”, “How did the first stars and galaxies form and reionise the Universe?”, and “What is happening to the degenerate matter inside neutron stars?”
Find out more about our research areas and potential research projects below. Projects can be observational, computational, theoretical or a mixture of these. We encourage you to contact potential supervisors directly to discuss possible projects.
Below: A false color image of Cassiopeia A(Cas A), a supernova remnant located in our Galaxy about 11,000 light years away, using observations from Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Vesta and the Chaotic Formation of Planets Thurs 26 Apr, 2018 @12:00 PM, level 7 Brother Guy Conso[...]
- The growing field of post-main-sequence exoplanetary science Wed 18 Apr, 2018 @12:00 PM, level 7Dr. Dimitri Veras, S[...]
- Small scale structure of the IGM: A Dark Matter Tale Wed 11 Apr, 2018 @12:00 PM, level 7Dr. Vid Irsic, Postd[...]
- The Hubble Space Telescope: 28 Years of Cosmic Discovery Thu 29 Mar, 2018 @14:30 PM, level 7Dr. Jennifer Wiseman[...]
- Parameter Estimation and Model Selection of Gravitational Wave Signals Contaminated by Transient Detector Noise Glitches Wed 28 Mar, 2018 @12 PM, level 7Dr. Jade Powell, Postdo[...]
- Using Composite Spectral Energy Distributions to Characterize Galaxy Populations at 1 < z < 4 Thu 21 Mar, 2018 @12 PM, level 7Ben Forrest, PhD studen[...]
- Simulating GENESIS: The ASTRO 3D Theory programme Thu 15 Mar, 2018 @12 PM, level 7Dr. Pascal Elahi, Postd[...]