Optical instrumentation for astronomy

2022 Postgraduate Open Day

David Buscher

John Young

Chris Haniff

Cutting-edge instrumentation & techniques

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

Magdalena Ridge Observatory

Image reconstruction, Bayesian inference, machine learning

Calibrating spectrographs to find exoplanets

Manufacturing metre-sized gratings