Techniques and Optics in modern Astronomy 3301

Lecturer: Dr Peter Doel
Room G11 (Katherine Lonsdale Building)
Email: apd@star.ucl.ac.uk

Introduction

A Optical Theory

A1.1 Imaging Theory

A1.2 Defects of optical components

B Optical(UV/Visible/NIR) Techniques

B.1 Telescopes and Optical imaging

B1.1,1.2 Telescopes and Optical imaging

B.2 Detectors

B2.1 CCD Dectectors

B2.2 Photon counters

B2.3 Infra-red detectors

B2.4 Noise sources

B.3 UV/Visible/NIR instruments

B3.1 Imaging and Imaging Instrumentation

B3.2 Spectroscopy and Spectrographs

B3.3 Polarimetry and Polarimeters

B3.4 Coronography and Coronographs

B3.5 Adaptive Optics

B3.6 Indirect Imaging

C Radio Wavelengths

C.1 Radio Astronomy

D X-ray and Gamma-ray wavelengths

D.1 X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy

E Exotic Astronomy

E.1 Very High Energy (VHE) Gamma-ray

E.2 Neutrino Astronomy

E.3 Gravity wave and dark matter detectors

Problem Sheets

Problem Sheet 1 + answers

Problem Sheet 2 + answers

Problem Sheet 3 + answers

Problem Sheet 4 + answers

Notes

Note on Poisson Statistics