Astronomical Techniques II

IUCAA-NCRA Graduate School

March - May 2016

• 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 15-16 April (Fri-Sat), 2016
• Final Exam - tentatively 6 May, 2016
• Things you should know about the course

Lectures

No	Date	Title	Slides
1	16 Mar 2016	The Big Picture	Lecture 1.pdf
2	18 Mar 2016	Single Dish Astronomy	Lecture 2.pdf
3	23 Mar 2016	Noise, Temperature and SNR	Lecture 3.pdf
4	28 Mar 2016	Interferometry Overview - 1	Lecture 4.pdf
5	30 Mar 2016	Interferometry Overview - 2	Lecture 5.pdf
6	01 Apr 2016	Coherence and the basic interferometer	Lecture 6.pdf
7	06 Apr 2016	uv coverage and array design	Lecture 7.pdf
8	8 Apr 2016	Correlators and Calibration Framework	Lecture 8.pdf
9	13 Apr 2016	Calibration	Lecture 9.pdf
10	15 Apr 2016	GMRT Overview	Lecture 10.pdf Lecture given by Kaushal Buch as a part of the GMRT visit
11	19 Apr 2016	Imaging - 1	Lecture 11.pdf
12	22 Apr 2016	Imaging - 2	Lecture 12.pdf
13	27 Apr 2016	Self-calibration	Lecture 13.pdf
14	29 Apr 2016	Sensitivity and a few misc. things	Lecture 14.pdf

Assignments and Tests

• Pre-test
• Assignment-1
• Assignment-2
• Antenna coordinates for the MWA

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
• Lectures from 13th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, NRAO, Socorro, NM, 2012
• Lectures from 14th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, NRAO, Socorro, NM, 2014