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