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Form of workA successful candidate will focus on the LuSEE-Night project, which will land a Dark Ages pathfinder experiment on the far side of the Moon. LuSEE-Night is scheduled to fly on the CS-3 mission of NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services in the second part of 2025. LuSEE-Night will demonstrate technical feasibility of the low-frequency (0.1-50MHz) radio observations from the far-side of the Moon. It will characterize the lunar far-side as a radio astronomy observatory and identify main sources of systematic errors for high precision observations. We are looking for a physicist to work on hardware, instrument development, and preparation for data analysis. Successful candidate will work with Anze Slosar. You will enjoy a high level of interaction with an international and multi-cultural scientific community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Detailed characterization and testing of the analog/digital signal chain using laboratory measurements combined with numerical modeling.
- Developing statistical models of the low-frequency radio sky and predicting the observed signal as a part of LuSEE-Night Science Collaboration.
- Developing analysis methods and data reduction software to characterize galactic and extragalactic foregrounds and to extract Dark Ages constraints
- Advancing new approaches to system calibration
- Document and disseminate research results through publications and conduct research presentations at meetings and conferences.
