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Optical Infrared Astronomy, Advanced Course V
Lecture Presentations†
Syllabus†
Time†
A1A2 term, Monday-2(10:25-12:10)
Attendance List†
List
Course Title†
"Instrumentation and Technologies of Optical Infrared Observations"
Course Overvies†
Understanding instrumentation, element technologies, and their background concepts used in for the observations in the optical-infrared wavelength.
Schedule†
- Introduction
- Ground-based and Space Telescopes
- Site selection and observational conditions
- Atmospheric disturbance and seeing
- Atmospheric transmittance
- Site evaluation
- Optics
- Paraxial theory
- Seidel aberrations
- Chromatic aberration
- Refractive and reflective optics
- Diffraction and Airy pattern
- Telescopes
- Cassegrain and Gregorian optics
- Aplanatic optics
- Schmidt camera
- Mirror
- Atmospheric dispersion correction
- Detectors
- Photographic plates
- Semiconductor detectors
- Photovoltaic detectors, photo conductive detectors
- CCD and CMOS
- Infrared detectors and hybridization
- Impurity band conduction
- Readout electronics
- kTC noise and CDS
- Filters
- Filter sets and magnitude systems
- Color glass
- Fabry-Perot interferometer
- Interference filters
- Anti-reflection coating
- Metal-mesh filters
- Dispersers
- Prisms
- Gratings
- Grisms
- Immersion gratings
- VPH gratings
- Imagers
- Optical imagers
- Infrared imagers
- Re-imaging and Lyot stop
- Offner optics
- Spectrographs
- Multi-object spectrographs
- Integral field spectroscopy
- Optical fibers
- Adaptive optics
- Atmospheric disturbance
- Speckles
- Wavefront sensors
- Deformable mirrors
- Laser guide star systems
- Multi-conjugate AO
- Ground-layer AO
- Multi-object AO