Course Overview

The observational activity is one of the pillars of Astrophysics, continuously feeding the theoretical elaboration. Observational training is essential both to researchers who produce the data as to theorists who should know evaluate them critically.

Learning Achievement

Give to the graduate student fundamental notions of the instrumentation used in Astrophysics, as well as on observational techniques, data acquisition and reduction. In particular, give to the student conditions to plan the use of instrumentation to achieve specific scientific goals.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Tests and practical exercises

Course schedule

Effect of Earth's atmosphere on observations in the optical and infrared; Telescopes and image quality; Effects of the interstellar medium; Detectors; Techniques of radio astronomy; Photometry; Spectroscopy; Elements of polarimetry ; Data acquisition handling; Space astronomy - X-rays

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Roberto Dell'Aglio Dias da Costa, Marcos Perez Diaz, Jorge Luis Melendez Moreno

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