Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE140100052 [ 2014-01-01 - 2016-08-31 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: A/Prof Christopher Blake (Chief Investigator) ,  Associate Professor Michael Brown (Chief Investigator) ,  Associate Professor Michael Brown (Chief Investigator) ,  Bryan Gaensler (Chief Investigator) ,  C.G. Tinney (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description TAIPAN - a spectrograph to survey the southern sky. TAIPAN - a spectrograph to survey the southern sky: The TAIPAN spectroscopic survey of the southern sky aims to quadruple the number of nearby galaxies with measured redshifts, distances and velocities. Science goals include measuring the expansion rate of the universe to 1 per cent precision, and combining optical spectroscopy and radio data for each galaxy to measure the rate at which gas is being converted into stars in the local universe. This project supports construction of the TAIPAN high-performance spectrograph that will be used to carry out the survey on the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST). The results of the survey will be made freely available to all Australian astronomers.

Funding Amount $350,000

Funding Scheme Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

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