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AST542 -- Instrumentation and Techniques Seminar Wednesdays Peyton 145 4:30
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The seminar will discuss observational instrumentation and upcoming 
telescopes and missions.

Schedule of talks
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Feb 2    Introduction: Jill Knapp

Feb 9    Elisa Chisari 1. Geometric Optics and Aberrations

Feb 16   Colin Hill 3. Optical Systems, telescopes

Feb 23   Simone Ferraro  2.  Physical Optics and Diffraction

Mar 2    Gonzalo Aniano  4. Spectrographs 

Mar 9    Tim Brandt  5. Atmospheric and Extraterrestrial Backgrounds
                       and Extinction

Mar 16   spring break

Mar 23   Cristobal Petrovich  6. Optics of the Atmosphere and Seeing

Mar 30   Ruobing Dong  7.  Adaptive optics, current systems, results

Apr 6    Jim Gunn  8. Optical Detectors
         Claire Lackner 9. Near-IR detectors

Apr 13   10. Thane Nampaisarn  Photometry/crowded field photometry
         Jason Li   18. galaxy photomotry and photometric redshifts

Apr 20   11. Mike Belyaev  Spectroscopy, spectrophotometry

Apr 27   Ena Choi   17. UV optics, detectors, missions
         Chelsea Huang  14. Detectors: Far IR and Submm, bolometers
	 heterodyne dtectors

May 4    Xuening Bai 12. Radio Interferometry: ALMA, EVLA, VLBA

May 11   Brandon Hensley  16. Xray optics and detectors: missions
         Yanfei Jiang     13. High Contrast Imaging in the Optical and IR

May 18   Pete Pattarakijwanich  20. New Ground and Space-Based Telescopes:
                                    JWST, ELTs
         Liz Jensen  Speckles


Lecture subjects:
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Subjects: More-or-less in lecture order through 11

1. First and third order geometrical optics, aberrations  Elisa

2. Physical optics, diffraction    Simone

3. Optical systems, telescopes  Colin

4. Spectrographs    Gonzalo

5. Atmospheric and extraterrestrial backgrounds and extinction  Tim

6. Optics of the atmosphere: seeing  Cristobal

7. Adaptive Optics. Principles, current systems, results

8. Detectors--optical Jim 

9. Detectors--near-IR    Claire

10. Photometry (include crowded-field photometry)  Thane

11. Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry, and capabilities of
     typical currently available instruments  Mike

12. Radio interferometry: ALMA, EVLA and VLBA    Xuening

13. High-contrast imaging, coronagraphs (ground and space) Yanfei

14. Detectors--Far-IR and submillimeter, bolometers   Chelsea

15. Detectors--mm and longer, heterodyne, single-dish radio 
    telescopes, radio spectrometers  

16. X-ray optics and detectors, missions  Brandon 

17. UV optics, detectors, missions Ena 

18. Galaxy photometry and photometric redshifts  Jason

19. Absolute spectrophotometric calibration

20. New ground- and space-based optical telescopes: JWST, ELT etc Pete


Who is taking the course:
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Gonzalo, Xuening, Mike, Tim, Elisa, Ena, Ruobing, Simone, Brandon,
Colin, Chelsea, Yanfei, Claire, Jason, Thane, Pete, Cristobal. KG,
Reina and Lorenzo are exempt from making a presentation, since you are
in the final semester of thesis work; but please do attend.

All: please look at the schedule and choose a topic and a date. The
restriction is that we'd like the first 12 topics to be discussed more
or less in order.

We have the class scheduled 4:30 - 6 on Wed evenings, and if necessary 
will double up topics and run the classes till 6:30.  If so, snacks
will be provided to prevent collapse.

There will be a web site at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~gk/AST542
(in preparation at this moment) where we'll list the syllabus, class
times etc and also store your presentations, if you permit. Links
to online documents will also be there, and suggestions are welcome.


Books:
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The following books will be on the reserve shelf in Grand Central:

Astrophysical Techniques           Kitchen
Giant Telescopes                   McCray
Introduction to Radio Astronomy    Burke and Graham-Smith
Astronomy Methods                  Bradt
Handbook of CCD Astronomy          Howell
Detection of Light                 Rieke
Interferometry and Synthesis       Thompson, Moran and Swenson
Diffraction Grating Handbook       Richardson Grating Laboratory
Astronomical Optics (2nd Ed)       Schroeder


Jon Holtman's lectures at

http://ganymede.nmsu.edu/holtz/a535/ay535notes/

are very useful.  See also:


Airborne Astronomy Symposium, ed Haas et al. ASP Conf Ser 73

Submillimeter Astronomy ed Watt & Webster, ASSL

Submillimeter Astrophysics and Technology, ed. Lis et al. ASP Conf Ser 417

Science Vision for SOFIA (NASA publications. Jill has this)