Improving Veloce Data Processing - then measure planet masses.

Honours Project Supervisor: Professor Chris Tinney

There are a number of aspects of the current Veloce processing system that need further work - optimal dark subtraction; inter-quadrant cross-talk correction; linearity measurement and correction; improved fibre profile measurement. Each of these would give an Honours student experience in how astronomical data processing works “at the coal face”. Along with experience in taking data at the AAT. And then using processed data to measure planet properties.

Y-type brown dwarf luminosities

Honours Project Supervisor: Professor Chris Tinney

There I have a large database of astrometric observations of very cool Y-type brown dwarfs. The need to focus on Veloce has meant this data has not been fully exploited to measure brown dwarf distances (and so luminosities). or to search for possible binary companions. So an Honours student could take on that data and work with it.