Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics"”.
-
Optimised ground-based near-infrared instrumentation for robotic exoplanet transit surveys
… late M, L type stars by developing correction methods and a new instrument called SPIRIT. My first original contribution was the development of a correction method for the induced effects from varying precipitable water vapour (PWV) in our atmosphere, specifically on differentially resolved …
-
How to Accurately Map the Milky Way with a Billion Sources: A Journey into the Gaia-verse
… vital components: unbiased distance estimators and survey selection functions. Without either, models are susceptible to significant systematic uncertainties. My case study of the tilt of the local velocity ellipsoid demonstrates this. Well-constructed distances for the Gaia DR2 RVS sample …