Radio Astronomy (ASTR700), Spring 2020

Lecture materials--- slides, links, and assess-yourself activities:
Tues January 14: Introduction
                             [ Slides ] 
                             [ Self-review ]
Thurs January 16: Quantifying Light
                             [No slides today]
                             [ Self-review ]
Tues January 21: [ problem solving session #1 ]
Thurs January 23: Blackbodies and Accelerated Charges
                             [No slides today]
                             [ Acceleration geometry figures ]
                             [ Link: Interacting with accelerated charges ]
                             [ Self-review ]

Tues January 28: Fourier Transforms & Friends
                             [ Slides ]
Thurs January 30: [ problem solving session #2 ]
Thurs February 13: [ problem solving session #3 ]

Tues February 18: Radiometers
                             [ Parkes multibeam receiver parameters shown in class ]
                             [ Very Large Array receiver parameters shown in class ]

Thurs February 20: Interferometry
                             [ Slides ]
                             [ Standard thorough reference text for interferometry ]
                             [ Quick-read reference for intererometery ]
Tues February 25: [ problem solving session #4, including solutions ]
Tues March 3: Emission Mechanisms Overview and HII Regions
                             [ Continuum emission Quick-ref ]
                             [ Notes ]

Thurs March 5: Thermal Bremsstrahlung
                             [ Project introduction notes ]
                             [ Notes ]
Tues March 10: Magneto Bremsstrahlung
                             [ Slides ]
Thurs March 12: Synchrotron Spectra & Sources [Will & Jacob student lecture]
                             [ Will & Jacob student lecture slides ]
Tues March 31: [ problem solving session #5, including solutions ]

Tues April 7: Pulsars
                             [ Elaine slides ]
                             [ Evan slides ]
Thurs April 9: Fast Radio Bursts, ISM concepts, and Source counts
                             [ Slides ]
Tues April 14: [problem solving session #6]
                             [ Slides and project ideas ]
Thurs April 16: Recombination lines [Jess & Dylan student lecture]
                             [ Slides ]
                             [ Bohr atom simulation link ]

Tues April 23: Detailed Balance and Molecular Lines [Greg & Nick lecture]
                             [ Greg slides ]

                             [ Nick slides ]
Tues April 28: The Neutral Hydrogen Line [Lulu & Reshma lecture]

                             [ Lulu slides ]
                             [ Reshma slides ]
                             [ Zoom recording. Ask me for password if you want to view it ]

Here is a radio view of Hydra A using different configurations of the Very Large Array, whose A (biggest) to D (most compact) arrays provide different resolutions, and change the telescope's sensitivity to differing scales of emission.