Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE160100191

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE160100191

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

PRAXIS: beating the infrared night sky with multicore fibre Bragg gratings. PRAXIS: beating the infrared night sky with multicore fibre Bragg gratings: The PRAXIS project aims to deliver a new era in ground-based infrared observations. The infrared night sky is a hundred times brighter than the optical night sky, which has severely limited the sensitivity at these wavelengths. But 99 per cent of the infrared sky arises from hundreds of extremely bright, narrow emission lines due to hydroxyl in the Earth's atmosphere. PRAXIS, at the Anglo-Australian Telescope, is designed to cancel these lines using new multicore fibre Bragg gratings developed in Australia. The new fibres would render the night sky very dark and allow Australian astronomers to obtain unique observations. The sky-suppressing fibres would also allow us to develop new instrument concepts for Australia's extremely large telescope.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-05-2016

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Funding Amount: $175,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Food Safety |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Instrumentation | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Food Safety | Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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