Radio Interferometry SS 2017 (8404)
Dr. Stefanie Mühle, Dr. Benjamin Magnelli, Prof. F. Bertoldi, Dr. Alexander Karim, Prof. Dr. M. Kramer, PD Dr. R. MauersbergerCourse Material
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Presentations (Lecture)
Introduction to Radio Interferometry
Presentations (Tutorials)
Introduction to AIPS for CASA users (supplement: AIPS-to-CASA cheat sheet)
Files for the CASA tutorial
data used in class
Please download the data and unpack them (Linux users: use tar xzvf classdata.tar.gz).
check of download During the course, there will be three milestones that will help you to get your course work done in good time. If you take this course for credit, you are expected to hand in certain products of your data reduction by the due date of each milestone. Anticipated deadlines: May 15, June 15, July 15.
Instructions for Milestone 1
Instructions for Milestone 2
Instructions for Milestone 3
Guidelines for Paper and Presentation
exam data, to be used for the milestones and the exam
''Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II''
(ASP Conference Series, V. 180, 1998), Editors: Taylor, Carilli, Perley
The main source of material related to CASA is the CASA homepage. To download and install CASA you should visit this page. In class, we will use CASA 4.6.0. A pdf version of the CASA cookbook can be found here.
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Milestones
Milestone 1 went online on May 1 and had a due date of May 15. Milestone 2 went online on June 1 and had a due date of June 19. Milestone 3 went online on June 30 with due date of July 17 (Monday!).
In order to be admitted to the exam, you are required to complete the tasks set out in the instructions given below and to upload the deliverables to the specified ftp area before the deadline of each milestone.
Exam data
Literature
Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy (Wiley 2001), by Thompson, Moran, Swenson
CASA