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

Technical University Munich, SS18, Frank Eisenhauer

Date: every Tuesday, 12:15 - 13:45

Location: PH II 227, Seminar room E20 (we might change to MPE at a later point, this will be announced in a dedicated email)

• Announcement: (pdf, ppt)
• Optics concepts (pdf, ppt), 10 / 17 April 2018
• Atmospheric turbulence (pdf, ppt), 17 April 2018
• Adaptive optics I: wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors (pdf, ppt), Sylvestre Lacour, 24 April 2018
• Adaptive optics II: dynamical control, laser guide stars, (pdf, ppt), 8 May 2018
• Speckle interferometry (pdf, ppt), 15 May 2018
• Interference and coherence (pdf, ppt), Oliver Pfuhl, 5 June 2018
• Optical interferometry I: techniques, components (pdf, ppt), Stefan Gillessen, 12 June 2018
• Optical interferometry II: aperture synthesis, astrometry (pdf, ppt), Oliver Pfuhl, 19 June 2018
• Radio interferometry  (pdf, ppt), Feng Gao, 26 June 2018
• Data analysis and image restoration, (pdf, ppt), 3 July 2018
• Tour to MPE and ESO AO / Interferometry labarotories, 10 July

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)
• Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy: Thompson, Moran & Swenson, 2017, Open Access (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319444291)

Exams:

• Registration on TUMonline required
• Schedule (pdf, last updated 5 July 2018)
• 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