Lecture - Special Applications and Challenges
| Website: | WueCampus |
| Kurs: | vhb : Radio-Astronomical Interferometry (DEMO) |
| Buch: | Lecture - Special Applications and Challenges |
| Gedruckt von: | Gast |
| Datum: | Sonntag, 24. November 2024, 16:05 |
1. Surveys and Wide-Field Imaging
Learning Objectives:
- Historic introduction to radio surveys
- Overview for prominent radio surveys
- Highlight individual challenges
2. Low-frequency Challenges in Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Elaborate Low-frequency challenges in interferometry
- Ways to deal with challenges in this field
3. Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Differences between VLBI and conventional interferometry
- Recording systems and processors of VLBI arrays
- Effects of earth's atmosphere and rotation to the geometric time delay
- Calibration of VLBI observations and closure quantities
- Image reconstruction of VLBI observations
4. Spectroscopy in Radio Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Introduction to spectroscopy
- Different correlator-systems used for interferometrical spectroscopy
- Data cubes and analysis of spectral lines
5. Polarization in Radio Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Stokes parameters and Stokes visibilities
- Linear polarization measurements
- Faraday rotation and depolarization
- Circular polarization measurements and Zeeman effect
6. Time-Domain Science in Radio Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce interests to time-domain science in radio interferometry
- Elaborate consequential issues and possibilities in these fields of study
- Ways to deal with issues in time-domain science in radio interferometry
7. Big Data in Radio Interferometry
Learning Objectives:
- Impact of increasing data in radio interferometry
- Context to global efforts in big data
- Way of handling big data in radio interferometry especially with the most modern arrays