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Associate Professor, BSc Murd., PhD W.Aust., Science Director Zadko Telescope
The University of Western Australia (M013), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
M468
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
Australia
Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
PhD/HDR research projects available:
planetary defence - characterising hazardous asteroids using photometry
His early work on gravitational waves focused on modelling and simulation of gravitational wave background noise. This work evolved in new directions, including the development of a new data analysis algorithm that uses records of the temporal and spatial pattern of rare events in data to predict the occurrence of even rarer events. The methods found novel applications well beyond their original focus, such as predicting the occurrence of very bright gamma ray bursts.
Coward has received a broad mentorship that reflects his refusal to be restricted to a single research niche.
From 2008 - 2015 Coward worked on gamma ray burst afterglows as a tool for probing the early Universe and subsequently published works major on selection effects (18 1st Austhor publications).
In addition Coward published research into joint GRB and gravitational wave observations and contributed to the LIGO Scientific Community.
Since 2015, Coward has been leading the UWA team, to operate an international space surveillance hub at the UWA Zadko Observatory site. This was first enabled by the appointment as CI (2015-2023) on the ARC Centre of Excellence OzGrav (CE170100004).
From 2015, Coward has focussed on building new collaborations in space surveillance, resulting in a collaboration with major space industry company ArianeGroup, which funded a research training scheme. Other partnerships located at the hub include Numerica Inc. (space surveillance), POLSA-1 and a new partnership with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). Coward has built an expert local team to support the operation of a suite of space surveillance detectors and maximise the R&D via joint projects.
Research leader:
The partnership with the Polish Space Agency has been recognised and supported by the Federal Government via an Australian Research Council Industry Linkage grant - Characterising satellites using un-resolved optical observations (LP210300698).
The SSA hub utilises state of the art space survey detectors to build a comprehensive catalogue of space object reflectance data, which includes parameters such as low-resolution spectra, colour-index, light-curve (time series), polarisation depth, solar phase angle, to name but a few. Importantly, any archive of GEO satellite (and debris) characteristics is longitude dependant, in terms of completeness. We will exploit our unique geographic location to obtain the most complete GEO satellite and debris photometric and spectroscopic survey at this longitude.
UWA is the western node of the Australian Consortium for Planetary Defence. The consortium consists of UNSW / CSIRO U. Tas. We track Near Earth asteroid close approaches and aim characetrise the asteroids with a focus on rotation identification.
gamma ray bursts
gravitational waves
optical transients
planetary defence
space debris
2019 (upcoming)
Course co-ordinator: SCIE1122_SUM_CR
https://www.facebook.com/UWAstudents/videos/2215664298706036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMGwejnDfuQ
2018
Course co-ordinator: SCIE1122 Our Solar System
2015 -2018:
Electricity (first year)
Special Relativity (first year)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gendre, B. (Creator), Moore, E. (Creator), Moore, J. (Creator), Panther, F. (Creator), Klotz, A. (Creator), Thierry, P. (Creator) & Coward, D. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 6 Jul 2022
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2022GCN.32331....1G/SIMBAD and one more link, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022GCN.32331....1G/abstract (show fewer)
Dataset
Crisp, H. (Creator), Barynova, K. (Creator), Noysena, K. (Creator), Stachie, C. (Creator), Boer, M. (Creator), Christensen, J. N. (Creator), Eymar, L. (Creator), Klotz, A. (Creator), Antier, S. (Creator), Basa, S. (Creator), Corre, D. (Creator), Coughlin, M. (Creator), Coward, D. (Creator), Ducoin, J. G. (Creator), Gendre, B. (Creator), Hello, P. (Creator), Lachaud, C. (Creator), Leroy, N. (Creator), Turpin, D. (Creator) & Wang, X. (Creator), SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Sept 2019
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019GCN.25749....1C/abstract
Dataset
Coward, D. (Investigator 01), Karczewski, O. (Investigator 02), Mian, A. (Investigator 03), bykowski, W. (Investigator 04) & taberski, G. (Investigator 05)
ARC Australian Research Council
24/08/23 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
Coward, D. (Investigator 01), Gendre, B. (Investigator 02) & Moore, J. (Investigator 03)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
1/06/21 → 1/08/26
Project: Research
Coward, D. (Chief Investigator)
The University of Western Australia
20/01/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
Gendre, B. (Investigator 01), Coward, D. (Investigator 02), Panther, F. (Investigator 03) & Moore, J. (Investigator 04)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/23 → 28/02/24
Project: Research
Coward, D. (Investigator 01), Gendre, B. (Investigator 02) & Moore, J. (Investigator 03)
14/01/21 → 14/01/25
Project: Research
Coward, D. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Other distinction
27/07/18
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