Lecture: Radio Science 1 & 2

[o-smirnov]

@rdeane and @KshitijT, list of topics/concepts please

[o-smirnov]

Good suggestion today was to have lecture 1 at the beginning with general radio science, and lecture 2 at the end, to put the techniques in context.

[rdeane]

We'd like to request an additional lecture if time permits. Our current plan is have two lectures at the very beginning of the week and the third towards the end to put everything in context and discuss future telescopes (focussing on MeerKAT and SKA). Draft outline is below, comments/suggestions are welcome.

Lecture 1 (Roger, 45 min)

• astronomy overview: Big Bang to present day (more multi-wavelength overview but highlighting important epochs and radio sources that Kshitij will talk about in more detail in Lecture 2)

Lecture 2 (Kshitij, 45 min)

• the radio sky : sources and emission mechanisms

Lecture 3 (45-60 mins):

• what we actually observe (different interferometers, sources, observing modes) (Kshitij, 20 mins)
• key science areas of current and future radio facilities (Roger, 25 mins)

[o-smirnov]

Sounds like a good plan -- I'm sure we can fit it in, we do have a whole
week after all.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:56 PM, rdeane notifications@github.com wrote:

We'd like to request an additional lecture if time permits. Our current
plan is have two lectures at the very beginning of the week and the third
towards the end to put everything in context and discuss future telescopes
(focussing on MeerKAT and SKA). Draft outline is below,
comments/suggestions are welcome.

Lecture 1 (Roger, 45 min)

• astronomy overview: Big Bang to present day (more multi-wavelength
  overview but highlighting important epochs and radio sources that Kshitij
  will talk about in more detail in Lecture 2)

Lecture 2 (Kshitij, 45 min)

• the radio sky : sources and emission mechanisms

Lecture 3 (45-60 mins):

• what we actually observe (different interferometers, sources,
  observing modes) (Kshitij, 20 mins)
• key science areas of current and future radio facilities (Roger, 25
  mins)

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[KshitijT]

I have uploaded a skeleton draft of lecture 2 - it lists the topics I am planning to cover.
I have based the presentation on parts of Essential Radio Astronomy Course of NRAO and the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by Wilson et al.

[gigjozsa]

I've put some slides of mine (ooffice, which I guess most people are using, otherwise I can transfer to power point) and a nice gif animation here:
jake.ru.ac.za:/home/jozsa/rhodes_HI _material
At the beginning of the talk, which contains a selection of pretty pictures, I just slipped in some slides about rotation curve decomposition. The first slides also show a nice visualisation of a data cube. The gif animation is showing how with HI observations in two spatial and one velocity dimension (via Doppler-Shift) we can reproduce the HI structure of a galaxy in HI (making a few assumptions). It shows a real reproduction of the face-on view of an edge-on galaxy.
Take whatever you find best/most appropriate.