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PH512
Astrophysics
Professor Michael Smith
MULTIMEDIA ASTRONOMY
School of Physical Sciences
Convenor Prof. Michael Smith
Taught in Spring Term
Teaching Provision:
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PH512
ECTS Credits 7.5
Kent Credits 15 at Level H
Lecture + sessions
Subjects:
Data Archives
Data Mining
Processing/Reduction Techniques
Image Manipulation
Analysis & Interpretation
Objectives:
Specifically: to understand astonomical phenomena by extracting
structures/features from images and spectra.
Learn observational techniques and concepts.
General element: manipulate of any CCD/pixeled images.
Requirements
6 @ 10%: Assignments 1 to 6
1 @ 40% Project
ASSGN1:
ASSGN2:
ASSGN3:
ASSGN4:
ASSGN5:
ASSGN6:
Data Mining & Virtual observatories
Calibration Techniques
Image Evaluation and Astrometry
Photometry
Spectroscopy
Image Enhancement
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(2 - 1) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 15 As(01)
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(2 - 2) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 16 As(02)
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(2 - 3) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 17 As(03)
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(2 - 4) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 18 As(04)
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(2 - 5) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 19 As(05)
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(2 - 6) ASSGN (10 %) - Week 20 As(06)
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(2 - 7) MINPRJ (40 %) - Project
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Assignment 1 – immediate tasks.
Choosing object/field/region/nebula/galaxy
Finding data that is accessible
Choosing wavelengths
Type of data: image, spectrum, catalogue
Understanding data format
Downloading data
Exploring options: coordinate systems
Understanding: Sizes of images: field of view (FOV)-angular
Resolution of images: point spread function (PSF)
Pixel size.
Actual size of object in parsecs
Manipulating data
Overlaying multiwavelength images
Discussing results
Materials for course:1.
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Data from database
Virtual Observatory access: Aladin
Reduction software AIP
Assignments: AIP tutorials but with supplied data.
AIP Book
Host for AIP software PC/windows
Multiwavelength archive/resource list
http://astro.kent.ac.uk/mds/Modules/PH512/
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ph512-09-targets.doc
multiwavelength.html
SETUP
Safety – neck, eyes, feet, hands, elbows.
Own work: no cheating
Contact details: [email protected]
Module Page
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The Book with Tutorials
Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing (HAIP)(AIP4WIN)
Astronomical Image Processing Software (AIP4Win2.0)
www.willbell.com/aip/index.htm
Chapter 1: (pdf file)
Review light, cameras, imaging, pixels, field-of-view (FOV),
charge-coupled device (CCD)
Chapter 2 (hand-out)
File/Storage formats: see hand-out
About FITS Image (Data)
Most of data for astronomical research are FITS format. 'Flexible Image Transport
System' (FITS) format is the standard data format used in astronomy.
More informations, sample FITS data, ...
 The FITS Support Office at NASA/GSFC
 http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Aladin
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Aladin - An interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to
visualize digitized images of any part of the sky, to superimpose
entries from astronomical catalogs
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml
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Public Archives that provide astronomical data in FITS format:
 Anglo-Australian Telescope
 ATNF Australia radio telescopes data archive
 Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA) millimeter-wave
radio interferometer
 Canadian Astronomical Data Center (CADC) archive of
observations taken with HST, Gemini, JCMT, CFHT, CGPS, and
other archives and catalogues.
 CASU, Cambridge (U.K.) Astronomical Survey Unit Data Center,
including archives of the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes and
other U.K. affiliated observatories
 Chandra X-ray telescope data archive
 Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) survey of distant
galaxies observed with Keck and HST
 ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive contains non-proprietary data
from the VLT, NTT, MPG/ESO 2.2m, and the ESO 3.6m
telescopes, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope
 HEASARC archive of X-ray and Gamma-ray observations from
space. See also sample FITS files
 IRSA NASA's archive node for infrared and sub-millimeter data
 JIVE institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe
 LAMBDA archive of WMAP and COBE microwave background
data
 Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (MAST)
 National Radio Astronomical Observatory (NRAO) Data Archive
of observation with the VLT, VLBA, and GBT radio telescopes
 Sloan Digital Sky Survey
 Spitzer
 Subaru telescope public data archive