Synopsis:
· Introduction to astronomical facilities
· Coordinates, catalogues, time, observability
· Earth’s Atmosphere and advantages of Space
§ Atmospheric Transmission and Emission
§ Refraction and Seeing
· High Resolution imaging : Corrections for atmospheric phase
§ Adaptive Optics,
§ Interferometry
· Telescopes
· Detectors
· Photometry
· Spectroscopy
PDF Copies of the slides are available here:
Lecture 1 Facilities and Coordinates
Lecture 2 Earth’s atmosphere : emission, transmission
Lecture 3 Earth’s atmosphere : refraction and seeing
Lecture 4 Achieving High Resolution ; Adaptive Optics and Interferometry
Lecture 5 Telescopes
Lecture 6 Detectors
Lecture 7 Imaging & Photometry
Lecture 8 Spectroscopy
Lecture 9 Proposals
While videos of some Lectures are available here:
Lecture 4 : Achieving High Resolution ; Adaptive Optics and Interferometry
Lecture 6 : Detectors
Lecture 7 : Imaging and Photometry
Lecture 8 : Spectroscopy
Lecture
9 : Proposal process
Hopefully Useful References and texts
Essential sites:
Reference
Books
· Arthur Cox Allenճ
Astrophysical Quantities
· George Rieke Measuring the Universe -A Multiwavelength Perspective
· Ian McLean, Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation, Second Edition, 2008
· C.K. Walker, Terahertz Astronomy
· Jonathan M. Marr, Ronald L. Snell, Stanley E. Kurtz Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy: Observational Methods
· Bevington, P. R., and Robinson, D. K. 2002, Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences
Review Articles
· M Bessell, Standard Photometric Systems, ARAA, 43, 293, 2005
· G Rieke, Infrared Detector Arrays for Astronomy, ARAA, 45, 2007
· R Davies & M Kaspar, Adaptive Optics for Astronomy, ARAA, 50, 305, 2012
·
Taylor, G B, Carilli,
C. L, Perley, R. A. (eds) Synthesis
Imaging in Radio Astronomy II, ASP Vol. 180 (1998)
Technical Documents
·
Basic Image Processing and
CCD features : https://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/ccd/
·
Starlink CCD Data Reduction Cookbook : http://www.starlink.ac.uk/docs/sc5.htx/sc5.html
·
ALMA Technical Handbook : https://almascience.eso.org/documents-and-tools/latest/documents-and-tools/cycle7/alma-technical-handbook
·
Gemini Data Reduction
Workshop Presentations https://www.noao.edu/meetings/gdw/
· Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit http://casu.ast.cam.ac.uk/surveys-projects/vst/technical