News: Honours Projects - Daniel Brown
Exploring the core of supernovae using gravitational wave observations
![A graphical representation of a supernova](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/supernova02-carlknox-ozgrav-swinburne.jpg?h=309e12e8&itok=xzjEfvww)
Honours project: this project involves producing simulated populations, injecting them in read data, reconstruct the events with cWB and investigating which distributional test performs better in detecting the population.
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Intensity noise suppression of mid-infrared lasers for gravitational wave lasers
![Mid-infrared laser](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/mid-ir-laser-copy.jpg?h=309e12e8&itok=qVtLzFec)
Honours project: this project will investigate the intensity fluctuations of these lasers for the first time and design stabilization systems to ensure that these lasers meet the exacting requirements of the latest upgrades to gravitational wave detectors.
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Sub quantum noise limited position sensors for gravitational wave detectors
![LIGO Hanford Observatory](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/ligo.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=mEzkenDT)
Honours project: in this project you will investigate a new laser-based position detector that will hopefully surpass these limits and allow the low frequency performance of gravitational wave detectors to improved.
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Advanced LIGO Detector Characterisation & CW Astrophysics
Honours project: This project provides the opportunity to work on continuous-wave (CW) searches and advanced LIGO detector characterisation as part of the OzGrav Centre of Excellence.
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