Astronomical Techniques II

IUCAA-NCRA Graduate School

March - May 2015

• Schedule: Wednesday 10:00 and Friday 10:00.
• There will be about 14 lectures 1 to 1.5 hours each
• GMRT trip (hopefully overnight) - tentatively 17-18 April, 2015
• Final Exam - tentatively 8 May, 2015
• Things you should know about the course

Lectures

No	Date	Title	Slides	Video
1	18 Mar 2015	The Big Picture	Lecture 1.pdf	Lecture 1.flv
2	20 Mar 2015	Single Dish Astronomy	Lecture 2.pdf	Lecture 2.flv
3	25 Mar 2015	Noise, Temperature and SNR	Lecture 3.pdf	Lecture 3.flv
4	27 Mar 2015	Interferometry Overview - 1	Lecture 4.pdf	Lecture 4.flv
5	30 Mar 2015	Interferometry Overview - 2	Lecture 5.pdf	Lecture 5.flv
6	01 Apr 2015	Coherence and the basic interferometer	Lecture 6.pdf	Lecture 6.flv
7	08 Apr 2015	uv coverage and array design	Lecture 7.pdf	Lecture 7.flv
8	10 Apr 2015	Correlators and Calibration Framework	Lecture 8.pdf	Not available
9	15 Apr 2015	Calibration	Lecture 9.pdf	Lecture 9.flv
10	17 Apr 2015	GMRT Overview	Lecture 10.pdf Lecture given by Kaushal Buch as a part of the GMRT visit	Not available
11	22 Apr 2015	Imaging - 1	Lecture 11.pdf	Not available
12	24 Apr 2015	Imaging - 2	Lecture 12.pdf	Lecture 12.flv
13	01 May 2015	Self-calibration	Lecture 13.pdf	Lecture 13.flv
14	06 May 2015	Sensitivity and a few misc. things	Lecture 14.pdf	Not available

Some Online Resources

• Low Frequency Radio Astronomoy, Ed. J. N. Chengalur, Y. Gupta and K. S. Dwarkanath
• Essential Radio Astronomy, J. J. Condon and S. M. Ransom, NRAO
• Greg Taylor's Radio Astronomy Course at UNM
• A pdf copy of "Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy", ASP Conf. Ser. Vol 6, 1998
• Videos of 13th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, NRAO, Socorro, NM, 2013