• Question: what type of mashines do you use to conduct your exsperiment

    Asked by anon-246504 to Megan, Katherine, Jesse, Dave, AJ, Amelia on 12 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Jesse Dykes

      Jesse Dykes answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      I use a lot of lasers, and mirrors controlled by computers, electrical equipment like oscilloscopes and lock-in amplifiers. Basically, when I do an experiment I have tools to “poke” an object, and other tools to watch what it does when it’s poked

    • Photo: Megan Maunder

      Megan Maunder answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      I don’t run experiments like Jesse. I mainly use a computer to look at pictures of the Sun and coronal mass ejections, or look at measurements of the solar wind.

    • Photo: Dave Constable

      Dave Constable answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      The equipment I use are computers. I run simulations on both my laptop and a “supercomputer” at my University. I also use computers to analyse the data that the simulations produce. The supercomputer has a lot of processors and memory, so I can run very large simulations on it a lot more quickly than I can on my laptop.

    • Photo: Arjuna James

      Arjuna James answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      I don’t use anything myself but all my data comes from huge telescopes, some in Chile in South America and one called the Hubble Space Telescope which is orbiting the Earth in space as we speak!

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