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Spring 2013 Fridays 11:00am-12:30pm
Jonathan Williams, Institute for Astronomy
This series of seminars will introduce students to radio astronomy and inteferometry. The course will be split roughly evenly between lectures on the techniques and applications of observing at submillimeter wavelengths and practical work using real data. For the latter, we will use ALMA science verification datasets and work through the associated tutorials on CASA data reduction and analysis. Students will need a laptop computer running (Mac OS) unix or linux. The goal is for students to learn the skills of submillimeter astronomy and interferometry so as to be able to propose for SMA, ALMA, or JVLA observations in their chosen science area.
The schedule of the course is as follows. Lecture notes and instructions regarding the hands-on work will be linked here after each class.
| Date | Lecture | Tutorials | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Introduction to the course | ||
| Jan 25 | Principles of Interferometry |
Download CASA Get acquanited with the CASAguides |
IRAM Interferometry School Proceedings |
| Feb 1 | Introduction to ALMA | Work through introductory CASA tutorials |
Students should start looking at the list of ALMA early science datasets NBC goes to ALMA |
| Feb 8 | Practicalities of Interferometry: calibration |
Download
NGC3256 Science Verification dataset Work through associated casaguide to calibrate data |
For more details see Gueth IRAM lecture |
| Feb 15 |
Practicalities of Interferometry: imaging and deconvolution |
Work through associated casaguide to image NGC3256 SV data |
This lecture shamelessly hacked from
Wilner NRAO lecture Students should choose an ALMA early science dataset |
| Feb 22 | Getting to know casaviewer | More on imaging | |
| Mar 1 | Guest lecture by Jane Greaves | Simulating ALMA observations (casaguide) |
The simulation slides borrow heavily from
Marcelino NRAO lecture |
| Mar 8 | Science with ALMA (A brief overview) | More on simulations | Unattributed review paper |
| Mar 15 | no class | Individual meetings with students | |
| Mar 22 | no class | Individual meetings with students | Students to have carried out their own simulation by now |
| Mar 29 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| Apr 5 | no class | Individual meetings with students | |
| Apr 12 | no class | JPW on Big Island | |
| Apr 19 | ALMA proposal preparation | Students should have completed their SV data reduction by now | |
| Apr 26 | Student proposal presentations |