ASTRON 1263 - TECHNIQUES OF ASTRONOMY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course will roughly be divided into three parts: (1) telescopes, instrumentation, and detectors for radio, IR/ optical/UV, X-Ray, and gamma-ray astronomy. (2) Theoretical foundations of observational techniques, (astronomical coordinates, data acquisition, and sources of noise), data processing, analysis techniques, statistics, and model fitting. (3) Practical problems in making observations, data processing, and data analysis, with special attention paid to understanding errors and uncertainties in results.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ASTRON 0113 and (PHYS 0175 or 0476) and (PHYS 0219 or 0520)

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