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Course Syllabus

View an image from my Nikon digital camera displaying chromatic aberration.

Course Notes:

1. Basic Observables, Blackbodies, Photon Fluctuations
2. Fourier Review
3. Basic Signal-to-Noise Calculations
4. Astrophysical Foregrounds and Backgrounds
5. Bolometers and Calorimeters
6. Photomultipliers & High-Energy Detectors
7. Photoconductors
8. Solid-State Arrays
9. Calibration and Photometry
10. Image Processing and Deconvolution (not quite complete)
    
11. Telescope Configurations (has last pages of Image Processing)
    
12. Fermat's Principle and Seidel Aberrations
13. Diffraction; Seeing & Adaptive Optics
14. Spectroscopic Methods
15. Coherent Detection notes (handwritten photocopies)
16. Interferometry (Handwritten)
17. Optical Interferometry - review article by John Monnier
    

Homeworks

1. Due Jan 20, 10:30 AM
2. Due Jan 27, 10:30 AM
3. Due Feb 10, 4 PM
4. Due Feb 24, 4 PM (requires photometry.dat file).
5. Due Mar 23 4 PM
6. Due April 8, 4 PM
7. Due April 20, 4 PM (requires sample_on.dat and sample_off.dat files)
8. Due April 28, 4PM