Optical instrumentation for astronomy

2020 Graduate Open Day

David Buscher

John Young

Chris Haniff

Novel instrumentation & techniques

• Aperture synthesis
  • Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI)
  • Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI)
• Spectroscopy
  • HARPS3 - exoplanet hunter
  • MOONS - large surveys
  • E-ELT HIRES - exoplanet atmospheres + more

Magdalena Ridge Observatory

Image reconstruction, Bayesian inference, machine learning

HARPS-3

E-ELT HIRES