Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2-3PM, Wednesdays 9-11 AM, or by appointment
Note: The lab session time Thursdays 5:30 - 6:30, or Fridays 1-2 (choose 1). The lab session will generally be held at the Math SINC site.
| Week | Date | Topics | Lab | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept 4 | Introduction;
Spherical Trig,
Coordinates, Time |
no meeting | B: chapters 2,3,4 |
| 2 | Sept 11 | Atmospheric Refraction Telescopes and Optics Charge Coupled Devices |
no meeting | B: 5, 6.3 WJ: chapters 1-2 H: chapters 1-3 |
| 3 | Sept 18 | Other kinds of photon detectors | UNIX; IDL programming | B: chapter 6 |
| 4 | Sept 25 | Statistics I; basic CCD data analysis | IDL programming | B: 6.4 WJ: chapters 3-5 |
| 5 | Oct 2 |
Astronomical data resources and archives SMARTS proposal peer review |
Searching the Archives | |
| 6 | Oct 9 | Photometry | Reducing your data: images | B: chapters 8,10 H: chapters 4-5 |
| 7 | Oct 16 | midterm exam | no meeting | |
| 8 | Oct 23 | Spectroscopy | Reducing your data: spectra | B: chapter 11 H: chapter 6 |
| 9 | Oct 30 | The Hubble Space Telescope Astronomy from Space |
nothing scheduled | |
| 10 | Nov 6 | Introduction to Astrometry More Astrometry |
LaTeX: how to fill in the blanks | H: 5.5-5.6 |
| 11 | Nov 13 | X-ray and Gamma Ray Astronomy Infrared Astronomy |
nothing scheduled | B: 6.3,6.4 H: chapter 7 |
| -- | Nov 20 | no lecture | ||
| 12 | Nov 27 | Statistics II Timing analysis, Smoothing |
no meeting | WJ: Chapters 6-8 |
| 13 | Dec 4 | Interferometry
Oral Presentations |
no meeting | B: chapter 7 |
| 14 | Dec 13 | Sub-mm and radio astronomy
The future of observational astronomy HST mock proposal review session |
no meeting | WJ |
*** note: this plan is subject to change ***
B refers to Bradt;
H refers to Howell;
WJ refers to Wall and Jenkins.