Modern Observational Techniques: Spring 2006
Instructor: Mike Bolte
The files below contain the detailed content of the classes. Further
down the page are additional pdf-format files that contain the
powerpoint slides from the lectures (a greatly abbreviated version
of the class content).
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Powerpoint Lectures 1/2 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the first two classes (introduction through preliminary processing) (pdf file)
Powerpoint Lectures 3 and 4 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the third and fourth classes (Imaging cameras,
aperture photometry, PSF-fitting photometry, photometric calibration) (pdf file)
Powerpoint Lectures 5 and 6 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the fifth and sixth classes (Surface photometry,
star-galaxy separation) (pdf file)
Powerpoint Lecture 7 This file contains the
powerpoint lectures from the seventh class (Introduction to the Near-IR),
(pdf file)
Powerpoint Lectures 8 and 9 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the eigth and ninth classes (Spectometers and spectra)
(pdf file)
Powerpoint Lectures 10 and 11 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the tenth and eleventh classes (spectra reduction)
(pdf file)
Rough Course Outline (non-pdf version of ``Overview and Syllabus'')
- Computing/reduction packages
- Digital Detectors and Signal-to-Noise
- Writing Observing Proposals
- Planning and executing an observing run
- Data Reduction
- Preliminary Processing
- Photometry
- Imaging cameras
- Point source photometry
- Surface photometry
- Calibration
- Spectral Data
- Spectrometer designs
- Spectral formats
- Extraction
- Radial velocity measurement
- Equivalent width measurement
- Indices
- Infrared
- Detectors
- Noise
- Special considerations when observing
- X-ray Observing