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uva_msc_radioastronomy_2013 [2013/04/23 09:46] – [April 22, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry II: Calibration - Michael] wiseuva_msc_radioastronomy_2013 [2013/05/21 18:51] – [May 21, 2013 - The Future of Radio Astronomy - Michael] wise
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 ==== April 18, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry I: The Basics - Jason ==== ==== April 18, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry I: The Basics - Jason ====
  
-{{:ra_uva_lecture6.pdf|Lecture 6}}+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture6.pdf|Lecture 6}}
  
    * Motivation for radio interferometry    * Motivation for radio interferometry
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 ==== April 22, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry II: Calibration - Michael ==== ==== April 22, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry II: Calibration - Michael ====
  
-{{:ra_uva_lecture7.pdf|Lecture 7}}+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture7.pdf|Lecture 7}}
  
    * Definition of Calibration    * Definition of Calibration
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 ==== April 25, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry III: Imaging - Michael ==== ==== April 25, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry III: Imaging - Michael ====
  
-   * Basic Imaging, Visibilities, uv Sampling, Fourier Transforms +{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture8.pdf|Lecture 8}}
-   * Beams, Dirty Beams, Dirty Images, Gridding, Weighting +
-   * Deconvolution, Clean, Maximum Entropy, Multi-scale Clean, Adaptive-scale Pixel Clean +
-   * Image Quality, Noise, Dynamic Range, Fidelity +
-   * Wide-band imaging, Sensitivity, Bandwidth Smearing, Frequency dependent effects, Multi-frequency Synthesis +
-   * Wide-field Imaging, Non-coplanar Arrays, W-projection, A-projection, Mosaicing +
-   * Faraday Rotation-Measure Synthesis+
  
-==== May 22013 Field Trip to LOFAR and Westerbork Michael + Joeri + Jason + Dario ====+   * Imaging and Deconvolution 
 +   * Image QualityNoise, Dynamic Range 
 +   * Wide-band imaging, Multi-frequency Synthesis 
 +   * Wide-field imaging, Facet Imaging, W-Projection 
 +   * Mosaicing
  
-==== May 6, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy I: Single-dish techniques - Joeri ====+==== May 2, 2013 - Field Trip to LOFAR and Westerbork - Michael + Joeri + Jason ==== 
 + 
 +==== May 6, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy I: Single-dish techniques - Joeri  ==== 
 + 
 +{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture9.pdf|Lecture 9}}
    * Main differences between imaging and single-dish time domain astronomy    * Main differences between imaging and single-dish time domain astronomy
    * High-time resolution recording    * High-time resolution recording
-   * Interplanetary scintillation 
    * Pulsar properties    * Pulsar properties
    * Pulsar timing    * Pulsar timing
 ==== May 13, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy II: High time resolution with interferometers - Jason ==== ==== May 13, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy II: High time resolution with interferometers - Jason ====
 +
 +{{ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture10.pdf| Lecture 10 }}
 +
     * Comparison with single-dish observations.     * Comparison with single-dish observations.
     * Incoherent vs. coherent summation.     * Incoherent vs. coherent summation.
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     * Fast imaging.     * Fast imaging.
     * Advanced techniques.     * Advanced techniques.
-==== May 16, 2013 - Project Presentations - Michael + Jason + Dario ====+==== May 16, 2013 - NAC 2013 ==== 
 + 
 +   * No lecture because of NAC conference.
  
 ==== May 21, 2013 - The Future of Radio Astronomy - Michael ==== ==== May 21, 2013 - The Future of Radio Astronomy - Michael ====
  
-   New Radio Telescopes, MeerKAT, ASKAP, SKA +Lecture 11 
-   New Non-radio Telescopes, JWST, ELT, LSST + 
-   * Computational and Algorithmic Challenges +   The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) 
-   * Networks, Storage, Computing, Databases, Software +   SKA Pathfinders 
-   * Data Intensive Astronomy, Large-scale Data Management, Visualization and Analysis +   SKA Computational Challenges 
-   * The Rise of Data Centers, Archives, and the Virtual Observatory+   * Data Intensive Astronomy
    * Beyond the SKA    * Beyond the SKA
  
-==== May 23, 2013 - Final Exam - Dario + one other ====+==== May 23, 2013 - Project Presentations - All ==== 
 + 
 +==== May 24, 2013 - Deadline for written observing proposals and data analysis project ==== 
 + 
 +==== May 28, 2013 - Final Exam (13-16h) All ====
  
 ===== Lab Notes ===== ===== Lab Notes =====
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