ASTR 257: Modern Astronomical Techniques - Spring 2013

Office: ISB 305

Office Hours: Wednesday 11-12:30

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1, Overview and Basic Concepts (April 2)

Lecture 2, CCDs (April 4)

Profumo Guest Lecture (April 9)

For more check out Prof. Profumo's TASI lectures

Lecture 3, Optical and UV Astronomy (April 11)

Lecture 4, Data Basics, Photometry, Spectroscopy (April 16)

Lecture 5, Infrared Astronomy (April 18)

Lecture 6, X-ray Astronomy (April 23)

Lecture 7, Hard X-ray, X-ray data (April 25)

Lecture 8, Proposal Writing (April 30)

Lecture 9, Databases and Archives (May 2)

Lecture 13, Gamma-ray Astronomy (May 16)

Lecture 14, Radio Astronomy (May 21)

Lecture 15 (May 23) More Radio Astronomy Multiwavelength Astronomy

Lecture 16, Radio Analysis (May 28) (Emma Storm)

Lecture 17, Non-Photon Astronomy: Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (May 30)

Lecture 18, Gravitational Waves, Future Missions and Capabilities (June 4)

Homework

Homework 1 (due April 11)

Homework 2 (due April 25)

Files for Homework 2: File 1, File 2

Homework 3 (due May 7) Files for Homework 3

Homework 4 (due May 16)

Proposals: Introduction due May 23, Full Proposal due May 30 Example proposals

Homework 5 (due June 11)