Astronomy
Left: A different approach than the conventional dish, a ‘tile’ is made up of 16 polarised bowtie dipoles that feed into a beamformer which enables the array to be electronically steered across the sky.
Curtin University offers a range of opportunities for research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Thanks to the development of the ideas surrounding the Square Kilometre Array (http://www.skatelescope.org), Curtin along with other worldwide scientific institutions including the CSIRO and MIT are advancing Australia's involvement in radio astronomy with the design and construction of facilities at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory. These facilities will not only provide exciting new opportunities for students and scientists in this rapidly progressing field but also act as a technology demonstrator for the SKA consortium, which could ultimately lead to the construction of the worlds most sensitive radio telescope right here in WA.
For more information see the Curtin Astronomy website.