| Meetings: | Tuesday & Thursday 2:30-3:45 pm |
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| 1334 LGRT | |
| Instructor: | Min S. Yun |
| telephone: 545-2215 | |
| e-mail: myun@astro.umass.edu | |
| Office hours: | by appointment; or drop in. |
| Grade: | Homework 40% |
| Midterm 30% | |
| Term project 30% | |
| Homework: | HW problems are integrated into lecture slides each day (submit through Moodle) |
| Midterm: | Open-book exam, covering the material taught during the first 2/3 of the term. |
| Term Project: | Select a research topic among the list given and do a class presentation during the course of the semester. |
| Textbooks: | Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy: Observational Methods (J.M. Marr, R.L. Snell, S.E. Kurtz; MSK, in 518) |
| Also useful: | Tools of Radio Astronomy (Rohlfs, Wilson & Huttermeister; RWH; RWH, in 518) |
| Essential Radio Astronomy (Condon & Ransom; CR, online) | |
| Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy (Thompson, Moran & Swenson) 2d edition 2001(TMS, in 518) | |
| Radio Astronomy (Kraus) (2d edition, 1986) | |
| Radio Telescopes (Christiansen & Hogbom), 2d edition, 1985 | |
| Instrumentation and Techniques in Radio Astronomy (Goldsmith) | |
| Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy, ASP conference Series, vol. 6 (eds. Perley, Schwab & Bridle, in 518) | |
| Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II, ASP Conference Series, vol 180, 1999 | |
| Radiative Processes in Astrophysics (Rybicki & Lightman) | |
| The Fourier Transform and its Applications (Bracewell), 3rd edition, 2000 | |
| Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy (Verschuur & Kellermann), 2d edition, 1989. NRAO Synthesis Imaging Workshop Lectures |
Graduate Radio Astronomy at UMass