PHYS362 - Advanced Observational Astronomy

Contents

• Slide Set 1 - Continuum Radiation Processes: Powerpoint slides, PDF version.
• Slide Set 2 - Telescopes: Powerpoint slides, PDF version.
• Slide Set 3 - Radio and Submillimetre Detection Techniques: Powerpoint slides, PDF version.
• Slide Set 4 - Optical Imaging, CCDs and Photon Counting detectors: Powerpoint slides, PDF version.
• Slide Set 5 - Infra-red, X-ray and Gamma-ray imaging: Powerpoint slides, PDF version
• Slide Set 6 - Spectral Line Processes: Powerpoint slides, PDF version
• Slide Set 7 - Spectroscopic Techniques I: Grating Spectroscopy: Powerpoint slides, PDF version
• Slide Set 8 - Spectroscopic Techniques II: Fabry-Perot and Fourier Transform spectroscopy, Optical Fibres, Image slicers, X-ray and Radio spectroscopy
• Slide Set 9 - Interferometry
• Slide Set 10 - Adaptive Optics

Background Reading

• Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  See sections on Electromagnetism, Optics, Experimental Physics as well as Astrophysics.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Resources for specific sets of notes

• Slide Set 3

  • Bolometers for Submillimeter and Millimeter Astronomy, by W. Holland, W. Duncan and M. Griffin.
  • Bolometers for Submillimeter and Millimeter Astronomy, by W. Holland, W. Duncan and M. Griffin (postscript version for printing).

• Slide Set 4

  • Greg Bothun's (University of Oregon) Web lecture on CCDs.
  • Isaac Newton Group introduction to CCDs Needs powerpoint
  • "CCD University" by Apogee Instruments.

• Slide Set 5

  • Martin Beckett's notes on Infra-Red arrays (from his Ph.D. thesis).
  • James Manners' notes on X-ray imaging (from his Ph.D. thesis).
  • Caroline Stahle's notes on Quantum Calorimetry
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory introduction to Transition Edge Sensors and Superconducting Tunnel Junctions .

• Slide sets 8 and 9

  • Detailed Notes on Optical spectroscopy

• Slide Set 9

  • Tiziana Venturi's lecture notes on Radio Interferometry

• Slide Set 10

  • Cerro Tololo tutorial on Adaptive Optics by A. Tokovin
  • Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope tutorial on Adaptive Optics by Oliver Lai

  Past Exam Papers (pdf format)

  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004