Radio
and millimeter astronomy --- Radio- und Millimeterastronomie (MVSpec)
Vorlesung im Wintersemester 2012/2013, 2SWS, 2 Leistungspunkte
Henrik Beuther & Hendrik Linz
Dienstag: 9:15, Seminarraum Astronomisches Recheninstitut (ARI)
Die Vorlesung wird abhaengig von den Teilnehmern auf deutsch oder
englisch gehalten.
Benoetigte Scheine koennen am Ende des Semesters ueber muendliche
Pruefungen erworben werden.
Literaturempfehlung: Rohlfs & Wilson: Tools of Radioastronomy,
Springer
Thompson, Moran & Swenson: Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio
Astronomy, Wiley-VCH
Steven Stahler & Francesco Palla: The
Formation of Stars, Wiley-VCH 2004
Topics:
electromagnetic spectrum from radio to submm wavelengths,
instrumentation (bolometers, heterodyne istruments),
telescopes (single-dishs and interferometers), scientific applications,
e.g., free-free-emission, synchrotron emission,
dust emission, CMB, molecular and atomic lines as tracers of
physical/chemical processes and kinematics
Tentative Schedule:
16.10 Introduction and overview
(HB & HL, pdf)
23.10 Emission mechanisms, physics of
radiation
(HB, pdf)
30.10
Telescopes
(single-dishs)
(HL, pdf)
06.11 Telescopes
(Interferometers)
(HB, pdf)
13.11
Instruments - continuum
radiation
(HL, pdf)
20.11
Instruments - line radiation
(HB, pdf)
27.11 Continuous radiation (free-free, synchrotron, dust, CMB) (HL, pdf)
04.12 Line
radiation
(HL, pdf)
11.12 Radiation
transfer
(HL, pdf)
18.12 Excurions to Effelsberg 100m radio telescope: Departure from ARI at 8:00AM
08.01 Molecules and chemistry
(HL, pdf)
15.01 Physics and
kinematics
(HB, pdf)
22.01
Applications
(HL, pdf)
29.01
Applications
(HB, pdf)
05.02 Examination week