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

Technical University Munich, SS16, Frank Eisenhauer

• Announcent: (pdf, ppt)
• Optics concepts (pdf, ppt), 19 and 26 April 2016
• Atmospheric turbulence (pdf, ppt), 26 April and 3 May 2016
• Speckle Interferometry (pdf, ppt), 3 May 2016
• Adaptive optics I: wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors (pdf, ppt), Jerome Paufique, 10 May 2016
• Adaptive optics II: dynamical control, laser guide stars (pdf, ppt), 31 May and 7 June 2016
• Interference and coherence (pdf, ppt), 14 June 2016
• Optical interferometry I: techniques, components (pdf, ppt), planned for 21 June 2016
• Optical interferometry II: aperture synthesis, astrometry (pdf, ppt), planned for 28 June 2016
• Data analysis and image restoration (pdf, ppt), 5 July 2016
• Tour to MPE and ESO AO / Interferometry labarotories, planned for 12 July 2016

Recommended online courses and material

• Adaptive Optics and its Application by Claire Max (http://www.ucolick.org/~max/289/)
• Principles of Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry edited by Peter R. Lawson (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/41240)

Exams:

• Dates are here (last update 25 July 2016)
• Registration on TUMonline required (registration 16.5 - 30.6.2016)
• The oral exams will take place at MPE in room 1.2.52. Please see http://www.mpe.mpg.de/3539/visitors for the access to MPE

Imprint and Data protection information, last update: 2018-07-21, editor of this page: Frank Eisenhauer