Syllabus
Complete · 14-lecture and seven-unit cadence documented
Status: Approved for review release; not yet approved for instructional use
Covers radio emission mechanisms, antennas, receivers, interferometry, aperture synthesis, calibration, spectral line observations, pulsars, neutral hydrogen mapping, and radio survey analysis.
Planning Documents
Schedule
Complete · labs and problem sets follow each paired unit
References
Complete · tri-level source/data provenance recorded
Lecture Materials
- Lecture 01: The Radio Sky: Emission Mechanisms and Observables — slides · notes · slides and notes
- Lecture 02: Antennas, Feed Systems, and Receiver Chains — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: Sensitivity and the Radiometer Equation — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: Beam Convolution, Brightness Temperature, and Angular Scale — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Interferometry: Coherence and Complex Visibility — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Aperture Synthesis and Image Formation — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: Calibration I: Complex Gains and Bandpass — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Calibration II: Error Budgets and Imaging Systematics — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: Spectral-Line Observing and Doppler Inference — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: The 21-cm Hyperfine Line and H I Column Density — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: Pulsars: Dispersion, Scattering, and Precision Timing — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: Radio Transients, Pulsar Surveys, and Selection Functions — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: Galactic H I: Rotation, Geometry, and Mapping — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Radio Surveys: Catalogs, Confusion, and Reproducible Analysis — slides · notes
Labs and Observing
- ASTR 472 Lab 01: Continuum Mechanisms and Spectral Indices · complete
- ASTR 472 Lab 02: Radiometer Sensitivity and Brightness Temperature
- ASTR 472 Lab 03: Baseline Geometry and Visibility Sampling
- ASTR 472 Lab 04: Complex Gain Calibration and Error Propagation
- ASTR 472 Lab 05: Spectral Cubes, Doppler Velocity, and Line Width
- ASTR 472 Lab 06: Pulsar Dispersion and Timing Residuals
- ASTR 472 Lab 07: Survey Completeness and Galactic H I Mapping
Problem Sets
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 01: Emission Physics, Antenna Pattern, and Sensitivity · solutions · assessment instructions · complete
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 02: Radiometer Equation, Beams, and Brightness Temperature · solutions · assessment instructions
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 03: Visibilities, Fourier Synthesis, and Missing Scales · solutions · assessment instructions
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 04: Complex-Gain Calibration and Error Budgets · solutions · assessment instructions
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 05: Spectral Lines, H I Columns, and Velocity Structure · solutions · assessment instructions
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 06: Pulsar Dispersion, Timing, and Survey Selection · solutions · assessment instructions
- ASTR 472 Problem Set 07: Survey Completeness, H I Kinematics, and Reproducibility · solutions · assessment instructions
Source Code and Data
Source
Course-specific scripts, notebooks, and generators.
Data
Course-specific datasets with provenance notes.