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

Technical University Munich, SS20, Frank Eisenhauer

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

Location: initially as Zoom videoconference - as soon as situation allows at MPE

Connection details are sent directly to all participants registered in TUM Online

• Introduction and Optics concepts (pdf, pptx), 21 / 28 April 2020
• Atmospheric turbulence (pdf, pptx), 28 April, 5 / 12 May 2020
• Speckle interferometry (not in 2020)
• Adaptive optics I: wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors (pdf, pptx), 12 / 19 May 2020
• Adaptive optics II: dynamical control, laser guide stars  (pdf, pptx), 26  May / 2 / 16 June 2020
• Interference and coherence  (pdf, pptx), 23 June 2020
• Optical interferometry I: techniques, components  (pdf, pptx), 30 June / 7 July 2020
• Optical interferometry II: aperture synthesis, astrometry  (pdf, pptx), 7 / 14 July 2020
• Data analysis and image restoration  (pdf, pptx), 21 July 2020
• Radio interferometry (not in 2020)
• Tour to MPE and ESO AO / Interferometry labarotories (not in 2020)

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
• Date will be coordinated in the lecture
• 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

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