High Angular Resolution Astronomy: Telescopes, Adaptive Optics, Interferometry, and more

Technical University Munich, SS08

• Announcent: (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 1 (18 April 2008): Optics concepts (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 2 (25 April 2008): Atmospheric turbulence (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 3 (2 May 2008): Speckle interferometry and coronography (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 4 (9 May 2008): Adaptive optics I: wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 5 (16 May 2008): Adaptive optics II: dynamical control, laser guide stars (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 6 (23 May 2008):  Interference and coherence, intensity interferometry (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 7 (30 May 2008): Optical interferometry I: techniques, components (pdf, ppt)
• Lecture 8 (6 June 2008): Optical interferometry II: aperture synthesis, astrometry (pdf, ppt)
• Excursion (13 June 2008) to ESO/MPE PRIMA interferometric laboratory
• Lecture 9 (11 July 2008): Data analysis and image restoration (pdf, ppt)
• Excursion (18 July 2008) to ESO adaptive optics laboratory

Impressum, last update: 2008-07-21, editor of this page: Frank Eisenhauer