CSI 790 Topics in Computational Sciences and Informatics:
Astronomical Data Analysis Systems and Databases
Mondays, 4:30-7:10, 126 Science and Technology 1
Course information:
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Course syllabus
Computer info
- Week 1: Mosaic and the World Wide Web (January 23)
- Week 2: Online Meta Data Bases (January 30)
- Week 3: Online Archives (February 6)
- Week 4: HST Photometry: Proposal and Feasibility (February 13)
- Week 5: HST Photometry: IRAF, Analysis and Results (February 20)
- Week 6: HST Photometry: STSDAS, Analysis and Results (February 27)
- Week 7: KPNO/CTIO Spectroscopy: Introduction and Calibration (March 6)
- Useful IRAF documents - set Load to Disk then click
- Manuals for help doing
spectroscopy
in IRAF
Homework 7: IRAF exercise
ccd2 (due March 20)
- Week 8: Spring Break (March 13)
- No Class.
- Homework 8: Think about your final project. Turn in a one paragraph
writeup with a possible project. Include title, one sentence description
of science goal, proposed instrumentation, and proposed data
analysis software system. (Due March 20)
- Week 9: KPNO/CTIO Spectroscopy: Analysis and Results (March 20)
- Useful IRAF documents - set Load to Disk then click
Homework 9: IRAF exercise
spectra (due March 27)
- Week 10: Catch up on old homeworks (March 27)
- Week 11: CTIO Imaging: DAOPHOT, Statistics and Point Spread
Functions (April 3)
- Useful IRAF documents - set Load to Disk then click
- Useful References:
- DAOPHOT: A Computer Program for Crowded Field Stellar Photometry,
P. B. Stetson, 1987 (PASP, 99, 191-222)
- Future Development of the DAOPHOT Crowded Field Photometry
Package 1990 (ASP Conf Ser, ??, 289-304)
abstract
Homework 11
(due April 10)
- Week 12: ROSAT/XTE Timing: Proposal and Feasibility (April 10)
- Week 13: ROSAT/XTE Timing: PROS, Analysis and Results (April 17)
- Week 14: ROSAT/XTE/ASCA Spectroscopy: Proposal and Fesibility (April 24)
- Week 15: ROSAT/XTE/ASCA Spectroscopy: XSPEC, Analysis and Results (May 1)
- Reading Period: Proposals due (May 10)
Final Project
(due May 10)
- Proposals are due by COB (close of business). They may be
turned in at my GMU mailbox, my NRL mailbox, my NRL office,
or e-mailed in a format I can read (ASCII, TeX, PS).
- Finals Week: Peer Review Session (May 15)
- 4:30-7:00 pm, 216 Sci & Tech 1
World Wide Web resources:
- Astroweb:
Searchable astronomy resource list
- An Article on Internet Resources for Astronomers by Heinz Andernach,
Bob Hanisch, and Fionn Murtagh is available in
html
and
postscript.
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What's New with Mosaic and the WWW (NCSA)
- WWW Virtual Library:
Subject Catalogue (CERN)
- Searchable WWW indices:
Course resources
Other home pages:
Personnel:
Paul
Hertz (hertz@xip.nrl.navy.mil)