Astronomy 731 - Radio Astronomy
Spring 2005
List of Lectures
| Jan. 27 | Organizational meeting | |
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| Feb. 1 | Overview and Introduction | TMS Chapter 1 |
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| Feb. 3 | Basic Concepts | RW 1.1-1.6, TMS Chapter 1 |
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| Feb. 8 | Noise in Receivers | RW 54-82, TMS 7.1 |
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| Feb. 10 | Digital Signal Processing | RW 4.1 & 4.6, TMS 292-308 |
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| Feb. 15 | Bolometer and Total Power Detection | G. Wilson (RW 4.3, p91-92) |
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| Feb. 17 | Heterodyne Receivers and Spectrometers | G. Narayanan (RW 4.5-4.6) |
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| Feb. 22 | Antennas I (Diffraction Theory) |
RW 6.1-6.3 |
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| Feb. 24 | Antennas II (Illumination, Surface, Polarization) | RW 6.4-6.6 |
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| Mar. 1 | Antennas III (Holography, Mapping) | TMS 15.3 |
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| Mar. 3 | Interferometry I (Basic Concepts) | RW 7.1-7.4, TMS 3.1-3.5 |
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| Mar. 8 | Interferometry II (Practical Aspects) | TMS 2.1-2.4 |
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| Mar. 10 | Interferometry III (Image Processing) | RW 8.5, TMS Chapter 11 |
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| Mar. 15 | Spring Break | |
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| Mar. 17 | Spring Break | |
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| Mar. 22 | Interferometry IV (Astrometry and Geodesy) | TMS Chapter 12 |
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| Mar. 24 | Thermal Radio Emission | RW 9.1-9.4, 10.2, 13 |
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| Mar. 29 | Nonthermal Radio Emission | RW 9.5-9.12, 10.3-10.5 |
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| Mar. 31 | Spectroscopy I | RW Chapters 11-12 |
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| Apr. 5 | Spectroscopy II | RW Chapter 14 |
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| Apr. 7 | Mid-term Exam | |
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| Apr. 12 | Redshift Receiver system | R. Goeller |
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| Apr. 14 | Galactic Plane Surveys and OTF Mapping | M. Heyer |
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| Apr. 19 | SWAS and Herschel | R. Snell |
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| Apr. 21 | No class (Monday Schedule) | |
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| Apr. 26 | VLBI | RW 7.8, TMS 28-33, 5.7, Chapter 9 |
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| Apr. 28 | Maser | RW 14.9 |
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| May 3 | Dust Emission and Submm Galaxies | Yun & Carilli (2002) and
Efstathiou et al. (2000) |
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| May 5 | Pulsar and Propagation in ISM | RW 2.8, 10.6 |
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| May 10 | Magnetic Field (Faraday Rotation, Zeeman Effect) | RW 3.5, 9.9, 12.2 |
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| May 12 | Future Radio Instruments: LMT, ALMA, EVLA, SKA | |
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| May 16 | Day 1 of Final Project Presentation | |
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| May 17 | Day 2 of Final Project Presentation | |
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RW = Rohlfs & Wilson, "Tools of Radio Astronomy"
TMS = Thompson, Moran, & Swenson, "Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy"