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Infra-red Observation Programme -- Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics University of Auckland in New Zealand
Degree Level
PhD
Field of study
Astronomy
Funding
Fully Funded
Deadline
Expired
Country
New Zealand
University
University of Auckland
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This project is part of the New Zealand/Japan/US collaboration Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) and the PRIME collaboration.
This project will be to use a cooled NIR astronomical camera at the Mount John Observatory 61cm Boller & Chivens telescope to perform follow-up observations of on-going microlensing events by the MOA collaboration. These events are used to discover extra-solar planets. The MOA collaboration has recently spun out a new collaboration, called PRIME. The PRIME collaboration runs an infra-red telescope in South Africa. The current purpose of the PRIME telescope is to take precursor images of the central Galaxy. Those images will be used to refine the choice of fields for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. The Roman space telescope will perform a search in the infrared for extra-solar planets, using microlensing. The ground-based data from PRIME and other NIR telescopes will be necessary to maximise the returns from the Roman space telescope: contemporaneous observations from additional observatories may allow the resolution of a degeneracy inherent in microlensing, leading to firmer estimates of planetary parameters, such as planet mass and distance.
This project will require the student to perform NIR observations of PRIME and Roman fields, characterise the NIR camera, adapt existing photometry tools to extract light curves and perform modelling of existing and new data to discover signals corresponding to exoplanets.
Information about how to apply for a PhD at The University of Auckland can be found here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/applications-and-admissions/apply-now.html
Email your CV and academic record (including grades and subjects) to the contacts for this position. Also include the GPE estimation calculated used the online calculator linked to in the "Funding Notes" section. Requests for further information or correspondence without all of this information will be treated with low priority and are unlikely to receive a response.
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Department of Physics
New Zealand
Research Interests
Astronomy
Astrophysics
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