Ay 122: Astronomical Techniques (Part B)

There is no single book. I will supply hand written (and some LaTeX) notes.

• Data Analysis, A Bayesian Tutorial by D. Sivia
  Most books on Bayesian analysis dwell on philosophy. This is a book for people who want to apply Bayesian analysis.

• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences by R. Bevington
  Standard Book on Data Analysis.

• Fast Fourier Transform and its Application by E. Brigham
  This is the simplest exposition of Fourier Transforms.

• Numerical Recipes by Press, Flannery, Teukolsku & Vetterling
  This is a good reference book that will serve you well for your entire life.

• NAIC-NRAO School on Single-dish Astronomy: Techniques & Applications by S. Stanimirovic, Altschuler, Goldsmith and Salter
  A thorough introduction to single dish radio astronomy (PASP Conference Series)

• Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II by Taylor, Carilli and Perley (NRAO Summer School)
  The best introduction to interferometry.

• Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy by Thompson, Moran & Swenson (2001)
  The authorative book on radio interferometry
• Electronic Imaging in Astronomy by I. S. McLean (2008; 2nd Edition)
  This book covers IR and optical instruments and detectors.

For serious observers I recommend that you purchase Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy and Electornic Imaging in Astronomy. This will serve you well.

1. Lecture (Jan 9) Fourier Transforms. Notes-I
2. Lecture (Jan 12) Convolution & Correlation
3. Lecture (Jan 14) Sampling Theorem
   Matlab Tutorial (Jan 15) Demo 1  |  Demo 2
4. Lecture (Jan 16) Phasor Algebr, Complex Sampling, Single Side Band Mixers
   Visit to the Palomar Observatory
5. Lecture (Jan 21) Quantization, Autocorrelators
   Fun Reading: The CD Story
6. Lecture (Jan 23) Radio Astronomy: Introduction Notes-II .
7. Lecture (Jan 26) Radio Telescopes
8. Lecture (Jan 28) Brightness Temperature, Antenna Temperature
9. Lecture (Jan 29) Technology & Astronomy (Talk given to JPL engineers)
10. Lecture (Jan 30) Basic equation of Radiometry. Mapping Speed
    Fun Reading: nu-Fnu
11. Lecture (Feb 2) Interferometry-I (Why Interferometry?)
12. Lecture (Feb 4) Interferometry-II (Basics)
13. Lecture (Feb 6) Interferometry-III (Imaging, Clean)
14. Lecture (Feb 9) Probability-I (Basics) Notes-II
15. Lecture (Feb 11) Probability-II (Covarience, Gaussian)
16. Lecture (Feb 13) Probability-III (Extrema)
    Fun Reading: Does Naming convention Matter? You bet (Moody's ratings, hurricane names, variable stars).
17. Lecture (Feb 23) Generating Random Numbers
18. Lecture (Feb 25) Statistical Detection of Light Notes-III
19. Lecture (Feb 27) Continued
20. Lecture (March 2) X-ray Astronomy
21. Lecture (March 4) Detectors (X-ray)
22. Lecture (March 5) Detectors (CCD, Imaging)
23. Lecture (March 6) Adaptive Optics ClaireMax.pdf ;
24. Lecture (March 9) Spectrographs
25. Lecture (March 11) Spectrographs