Overview and syllabus (pdf file)
The files below contain the detailed content of the classes. Further down the page are additional pdf-format files that contain the powerpoint slides from the lectures.
Overview and syllabus (pdf file)
Signal-to-Noise Lecture (pdf file)
Observing Lecture (pdf file)
Preliminary processing Lecture (pdf file)
Imaging Camera Lecture (pdf file)
Homework Problem #1: (pdf file) Due Tuesday Oct 20
Homework Problem #2: (pdf file) Due Tuesday Oct 27
Homework Problem #3: (pdf file) Point Source Photometry Due Tuesday Nov 3
Homework Problem #4: (pdf file) Surface Brightness Photometry Due Tuesday Nov 5
Homework Problem #5: (pdf file) Spectra of White Dwarfs Due Nov 12
Lecture 1, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint lectures from the first two class in the Fall 2015 version of the class. Telescopes, digital detectors and S/N calculations.
Lecture 2, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint lecture from the third class: Preliminary processing of CCD frames.
Lecture 3, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint lecture on aperture photometry and PSF-fitting photometry.
Lecture 4, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint lecture on surface photometry.
Lecture 5, 2015 This file contains the
powerpoint lecture on Near-IR observations.
Lecture 6, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint lecture on Spectrometers and long-slit spectra.
Lecture 7, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint slides from the lecture on multislit spectrometers, IFUs and measurement of extracted spectra.
(pdf file)
Lecture 8, 2015 This file contains the powerpoint slides from the lecture on high-energy astrophysics.
(pdf file)
Example Latex file
Slit Spectra Reduction, Massey et al. (.ps file)
Rough Course Outline (non-pdf version of ``Overview and Syllabus'')
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