UC Santa Cruz
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Neptune with and without AO
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WHEN AND WHERE: LECTURES: UC Santa Cruz . |
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INSTRUCTOR: CLAIRE MAX OFFICE HOURS :
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Announcements To download the Final Exam, click here. Due in Claire Max's office or via email by 5 pm Friday March 21st.
Syllabus click here for pdf click here for html Required Texts:
Class Discussion Area in WebCT
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Reading Assignments |
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| Reading 1 | January 10th | ||||||
| Reading 2 | January 15th | ||||||
| Reading 3 | January 17th | Reading 3a Reading 3b | |||||
| Reading 4 | January 24th | Reading 4a Reading 4b Reading 4c | |||||
| Reading 5 | January 29th | Reading 5a Reading 5b Reading 5c Reading 5d Reading 5e | |||||
| Reading 6 | Tuesday Feb 5th | ||||||
| Reading 7 | Thurs Feb 7th | Reading 7a | |||||
| Reading 8 | Tues Feb 12th | Reading 8a and these web pages | |||||
| Reading 9 | Thurs Feb 28th | Reading 9 | |||||
| Reading 10 | Tues March 4 | Reading 10 Note: read this for the big ideas rather than the details | |||||
| Reading 11 | Thurs March 6 | Reading 11a Reading 11b Reading 11c | |||||
| Reading 12 | Thurs March 13 | Reading 12a Reading 12b | |||||
To enter website for reading materials, go to WebCT
Homework Assignments: |
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| Homework 1 | January 10th | html | not applicable | |||||
| Homework 2 | January 17th | |||||||
| Homework 3 | January 29th | |||||||
| Homework 4 | February 12th | |||||||
| Homework 5 | February 26th | No unique "solutions" - you all did excellent and thoughtful essays based on the spreadsheet. | ||||||
| Homework 6 | March 4th | Control Theory homework problems embedded in Lecture 13 | ||||||
Lectures (tentative order of topics) Note: you are welcome to use slides and figures from these lectures in your own presentations, under the condition that you include the words ''Credit: Claire E. Max, UCSC'' somewhere on your slide
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Lecture 1 |
Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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Lecture 2: Geometrical Optics Review
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Max, Claire | PPT | html | I was planning to include a greyscale version of the PDF file, but the equations didn't appear correctly. So the PDF is in color. | ||||
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Lecture 3: Diffraction and Atmospheric Turbulence | Max, Claire | PPT | html | ||||
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| Lecture 4: The Optical Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 5: Additional Atmospheric Turbulence Parameters, and Introduction to Error Budget Concepts | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 6: Tip-Tilt and Wavefront Sensing | Max, Claire | PPT | html | Same mpg files as above | ||||
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| Lecture 7: Deformable Mirrors | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 8: Image Motion and AO System Optimization | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 9: AO System Optimization and Signal to Noise Ratio | Max, Claire | PPT | html | Typos will be corrected soon | ||||
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| Lecture 10: Laser Guide Stars, Part 1: Physics of Rayleigh scattering and of the sodium layer | Max, Claire | New Version |
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| Lecture 11: Lasers for Laser Guide Stars | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 12: How to be a savvy user and consumer of adaptive optics | Max, Claire | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 13: Control Theory for AO | Gavel, Don | PPT | html | |||||
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| Lecture 14: Part 1: How to be a savvy user, continued. Part 2: Control Theory Concepts | Max, Claire | PPT | ||||||
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Lecture 15: #1: Final part of Control Theory Lecture, revised; #2: Laser Tomography and the new AO modes it enables |
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| Lecture 16: Applications of tomography: MCAO, MOAO, GLAO | Max, Claire | PPT | html | Tilt anisoplanatism movie (F. Rigaut) | ||||
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| Lecture 17: AO for vision science | Porter, Jason | PPT | html | If the movies don't play within PPT slides, here they are as Quicktime files. You can play them separately. |
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| Lecture 18: Extreme AO for studying extrasolar planets around nearby stars | Macintosh, Bruce | PPT | html | |||||
