High Angular Resolution Astronomy: Telescopes, Adaptive Optics,
Interferometry, and more
Technical University Munich, SS21, Frank Eisenhauer
Date: every Tuesday, 12:15 - 13:45
(Zoom will open around 12:00)
Because of the Covid-19 situation, the lecture will initially be
ONLINE in the form of a Zoom presentation. To connect,
please dialin to
https://zoom.us/j/95664266915
The presentation is password protected. The password is available from
Moodle
https://www.moodle.tum.de/course/view.php?id=67559
If the
Covid-19 situation permits later in the semester, we will go back to normal
lectures in the
MPE Seminar Room 1.1.18
(for access see
here).
- Introduction and Optics concepts (pdf,
pptx),
13 and 20 April 2021
- Atmospheric turbulence (pdf,
pptx),
27 April 2021
- Speckle interferometry (we will skip this, but directly go to AO)
- Adaptive optics I: wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors (pdf,
pptx),
4 May 2021
- Adaptive optics II: dynamical control, laser guide stars (Sebastiano
von Fellenberg,
pdf,
pptx),
11 May 2021
- Interference and coherence (pdf,
pptx),
18 May 2021
- No lecture on 25 May 2021
- Optical interferometry I: techniques, components (Jinyi Shangguan, pdf,
pptx),
1 June 2021
- Optical interferometry II: aperture synthesis, astrometry (pdf,
pptx),
8 June 2021
- Data analysis and image restoration (pdf,
pptx),
15 June 2021
- A New Era of Interferometry with GRAVITY (pdf,
pptx),
22 June 2021
- Radio interferometry (Feng Gao,
pdf,
pptx), 29 June 2021
- Tour to MPE and ESO AO / Interferometry labarotories (unfortunately not
this year(
- Questions & Answers, 6. July 2021
Recommended online courses and material
Exams:
- Registration on TUMonline required
-
Schedule
(final, 22 June 2021)
- The oral exams will take place at MPE in the Large Seminarraum 1.1.18b
below the MPE main entrance. Please see
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/3539/visitors for the access to MPE
Imprint and
Data protection information, last update:
2021-07-06, editor of this page: Frank
Eisenhauer