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Text for the course (do not purchase--we have copies available)Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II Edited by G. B. Taylor, C. L. Carilli, and R. A. Perley |
Room: Tiernan 101 Prof. Dale E. Gary Office: Tiernan 101 Office Hours: TR 11 am, 3 pm Phone: (973) 642-7878 e-mail: dgary@njit.edu Course Web Page: http://web.njit.edu/~dgary/728 Webex: https://njit.webex.com/meet/gary Webex number: 644 296 834 |
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Lecture 1 ( W 01/23). Introduction to Radio Astronomy | Lecture Notes | Problem Set #1 (due 30 Jan) |
Lecture 2 (W 01/30). Radio Emission Mechanisms | Lecture Notes | Problem Set #2 (due 06 Feb) |
Lecture 3 (W 02/06). Radiative Transfer(Appleton Code) | Lecture Notes | Problem Set #3 (due 13 Feb) |
Lecture 4 (W 02/13). Primary Antenna Elements Get: (pyidl) | Synthesis Imaging: Chapter 3 | Problem Set #4 (due 20 Feb) |
Lecture 5 (W 02/20). Front End Receiving Systems | Lecture Notes | Problem Set #5 (due 27 Feb) |
Lecture 6 (W 02/27). Fourier Synthesis Imaging | Synthesis Imaging: Chapters 2 and 7 | Problem Set #6 (due 06 Mar) |
Lecture 7 (W 03/06). The Receiving System for Interferometry Lecture 8 More On Correlation | Synthesis Imaging: Chapter 8 and Chapter 4 | |
Lecture 9 (W 03/13). Calibration | Synthesis Imaging: Chapters 5 & 10 | Problem Set #7 (due 03 Apr) uvpts Choice of Presentation Topic Due |
Lecture 10 (W 03/27). Solar Radio Emission | Solar & Space Weather: Chapters 4, 6 & 14 | |
Lecture X (W 04/03). Special Lecture on Terrestrial Radio Research (Nathaniel Frissell) | TBD | SuperDARN Problems (due 10 Apr) |
Lecture 11 (W 04/10). Solar Radio Emission (cont'd) | Solar & Space Weather: Chapters 8, 9 & 10 | Problem Set #10 (due 17 Apr) |
Lecture 12 (W 04/17). Astronomical Radio Emission | Lecture Notes | Problem Set #11 (due 24 Apr) |
Lecture 13 (W 04/24). Project Presentations | 4-5 presentations (30 min each) | |
Lecture 14 (W 05/01). Project Presentations (cont'd) | 4-5 presentations (30 min each) | |
Lecture 15 (W 05/08). Project Presentations (cont'd) | 2 presentations (30 min each) |