ASTR610, Fall 2016
Administration
Course syllabus and other information
Approximate lecture schedule
Lecture slides
7 Sep 2016:
Detectors
12 Sep 2016:
Calorimetry
21 Sep 2016:
Statistics overview
26 Sep 2016:
Chi-squared
28 Sep 2016:
Bayes introduction
03 Oct 2016:
MCMC introduction
and animations (
first
,
second
)
05 Oct 2016:
Telescope optics
12 Oct 2016:
Fourier series and orthogonality
17 Oct 2016: Two-exponential
convolution
and
autocorrelation
animations
24 Oct 2016:
Sampling
animation. Sample points are black dots. Original cosine in blue. Aliased cosine in thin black line.
26 Oct 2016: FFT examples:
cosine
,
filtering
,
baseline ripples
31 Oct 2016:
Diffraction examples
2 Nov 2016:
Introduction to adaptive and active optics
7 Nov 2016:
Michelson's and Ryle's interferometers
9 Nov 2016:
Fringes
14 Nov 2016:
Covering the uv plane and the resulting beam patterns
16 Nov 2016:
CLEAN
and a little look at
MEM
21 Nov 2016:
Colors, etc.
28 Nov 2016:
Grating spectrometers
30 Nov 2016:
Fabry-Perot etalons
7 Dec 2016:
Correlation spectrometers
12 Dec 2016:
Gravitational wave detection
Problem set data
PS1 files are
here
(or if you are on one of the departmental computers: /n/a4/harris/public_html/ASTR610_F16/PSdat/PS1/)
PS6 files are
here
(or if you are on one of the departmental computers: /n/a4/harris/public_html/ASTR610_F16/PSdat/PS6/)
Midterm score distribution
ASTR695 presentation
03 Oct 2016:
Radio spectroscopy
Using the R language at UMD
Startup notes on using R on the University of Maryland Astronomy computers.
Example code for linear fit
Questions or comments? Please contact
Andrew Harris
.
