Protected Science Projects
FROM DR4 ONWARDS, NO PROTECTIONS ARE ENFORCED.
For historical purposes, we tabulate the original protected science programs below.
| Project Title | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|
| Compact and Ultracompact binaries in the Milky Way Galaxy | Paul Groot (Radboud), Danny Steeghs (Warwick), Lilia Ferrario (ANU) |
| Finding the Galactic Population of Symbiotic Binary Stars | Adrian Lucy, Jeno Sokoloski (Columbia), Juan Luna (IAFE/Conicet) |
| Hypervelocity Stars | Warren R. Brown (CfA), Brian Schmidt (RSAA), Stefan Keller (RSAA), Margaret Geller (CfA), Scott Kenyon (CfA) |
| Super-metal rich stars in the solar neighbourhood | Martin Asplund (RSAA), Luca Casagrande (RSAA), David Nataf (RSAA), Jane Lin (RSAA) |
| Characterising Transiting Exoplanet Candidates from HATSouth | Daniel Bayliss (Geneva), Gaspar Bakos (Princeton), Joel Hartman (Princeton), Brian Schmidt (RSAA) |
| Classification and photo-z catalogue, faint end of galaxy luminosity function | Christian Wolf (RSAA), Brian Schmidt (RSAA), Christopher Onken (RSAA) |
| Exploring Supernovae through light echoes | Wolfgang Kerzendorf (ESO), Armin Rest (STScI) |
| Exploring the Halo of the Galaxy with SkyMapper | Gary Da Costa (RSAA), Andy Casey (Cambridge), Ken Freeman (RSAA), Stefan Keller (RSAA), Dougal Mackey (RSAA), Chris Owen (RSAA) |
| Extremely metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge | Martin Asplund (RSAA), Louise Howes (RSAA), Stefan Keller (RSAA), David Yong (RSAA), David Nataf (RSAA) |
| Investigating the Galactic White Dwarf Population with SkyMapper | Stephane Vennes (Czech Academy of Sciences), Adela Kawka (CAS), Lilia Ferrario (ANU), Stefan Keller (RSAA), Mike Bessell (RSAA), David Buckley (SAAO), Gary Da Costa (RSAA) |
| Mapping the Structure of the Outer Parts of the Magellanic Clouds | Gary Da Costa (RSAA), Ken Freeman (RSAA), Stefan Keller (RSAA), Dougal Mackey (RSAA) |
| Optical counterparts of X-ray source population in ROSAT and eROSITA | Christian Wolf (RSAA), Mara Salvato (MPE), CAASTRO and the German eROSITA team |
| Optical counterparts of radio source population in ASKAP pilot surveys | Christian Wolf (RSAA), Julie Banfield (CSIRO), Brian Schmidt (RSAA), Bäbel Koribalski (CSIRO), Ray Norris (CSIRO) and the ATLAS team |
| Photometry of flat-spectrum radio sources | Oleg Titov (Geoscience Australia), Richard Hunstead (U. Syd), Helen Johnston (U. Syd), David Jauncey (CSIRO/RSAA), Laura Stanford (GA), Tapio Pursimo (NOT), Sandor Frey (FÖMI SGO), Leonid Gurvits (JIVE) |
| Primordial Gaseous Seeds | Joss Bland-Hawthorn (U. Syd), Matthew Nichols (EPFL), Mary Putman (Columbia) |
| RCorBor stars | Patrick Tisserand (IAP) |
Search for high redshift QSOs (5.8| Patrick Tisserand (IAP), Brian Schmidt (RSAA), Christopher Onken (RSAA), Christian Wolf (RSAA) | |
| SkyMapper Transient Search | Anais Möller (RSAA), Brad Tucker (RSAA), Bonnie Zhang (RSAA), Fang Yuan (RSAA), Richard Scalzo (RSAA), Brian Schmidt (RSAA) |
| The Halos of nearby Globular Clusters | Ken Freeman (RSAA), Gary Da Costa (RSAA), Dougal Mackey (RSAA) |
| The Interstellar Extinction Curve for 2.2 < RV < 2.9 | David Nataf (RSAA), Luca Casagrande (RSAA), Martin Asplund (RSAA) |
| The QSO luminosity function and using QSOs as local probes | Christian Wolf (RSAA), Christopher Onken (RSAA), Patrick Tisserand (IAP), Brian Schmidt (RSAA) |
| The SkyMapper Survey Search for Extremely Metal-Poor Stars | Gary Da Costa (RSAA), Martin Asplund (RSAA), Michael Bessell (RSAA), Andy Casey (Cambridge), Anna Frebel (MIT), Alex Heger (Monash), Heather Jacobson (MIT), Stefan Keller (RSAA), Karin Lind (Uppsala), Fabiola Marino (RSAA), John Norris (RSAA), Brian Schmidt (RSAA), David Yong (RSAA) |
| The Stromlo Milky Way Satellite Survey | Helmut Jerjen (RSAA), Gary Da Costa (RSAA), John Norris (RSAA), Antonino Milone (RSAA), Dongwon Kim (RSAA), Martin Asplund (RSAA), Anna Frebel (CfA), Marla Geha (Yale), Andres Jordan (Catolica), Renee Kraan-Korteweg (UCT), Pavel Kroupa (Bonn), Mario Mateo (Michigan), Se-Heon Oh (UCT), Ed Olszewski (Arizona), Patrick Tisserand (IAP), Matthew Walker (Cambridge), Shane Walsh (Curtin), Beth Willman (Haverford), Manuela Zoccali (Catolica) |
| Ultra-Cool White Dwarfs in the Southern Sky | Christian Wolf (RSAA), Mike Bessell (RSAA) |