Possible topics for presentations

Radio Science

• ALMA images of protoplanetary disks Look up some of the ArXiv papers at the bottom of this page.
• Radio afterglow of gamma-ray bursts
• Initial science with MeerKAT
• Radio emission from a type II burst seen with LOFAR.
• STELLAR RADIO ASTRONOMY : Probing Stellar Atmospheres from Protostars to Giants, Gudel, 2002, AARA, 40, 217.
• RADIO EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVAE AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTERS, Weiler et al., 2002, AARA, 40, 387.
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING IN RADIO ASTRONOMY, Kellerman & Moran, 2001, AARA, 39, 457

Radio Instruments

• Mileura Widefield Array (MWA)
• Long Wavelength Array (LWA), and/or OVRO-LWA
• FASR
• LOFAR
• Jansky VLA
• ALMA
• MeerKAT

Radio Techniques

• Maximum Entropy Method
• Multi-scale CLEAN
• Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy (multi-frequency imaging)

Digital Signal Processing

• Polyphase Filters
• FX vs. XF correlators
• CASPER Tools