Syllabus+(Spring),+Instrumentation+and+Observational+Techniques


 * Instrumentation and Observational Techniques **
 * Introduction to modern astronomical techniques
 * atmospheric transmission and turbulence
 * principles of adaptive optics
 * introduction to telescopes-fundamentals; designing very large telescopes
 * review of modern observational techniques and discoveries across the spectrum
 * principles of photometers/radiometers, cameras and spectrometers
 * principles of polarimeters and interferometers
 * detectors and detector classification
 * introduction to instrumentation design
 * optics and aberrations, mechanical, cryogenic and vacuum methods, electronics and software
 * the charge-coupled device
 * characterization and calibration of array detectors
 * signal-to-noise ratios
 * image processing and image restoration
 * astronomical software (IRAF and IDL)
 * data bases
 * infrared detectors and observational techniques
 * UV, X-ray and gamma ray detection methods, telescopes and techniques
 * sub-mm and radio techniques; TES, MKID and SIS devices
 * future developments