The Radio Sky II: Observational Radio Astronomy

What you'll learn

• Types of telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum
• Single-dish radio telescopes and radio interferometers
• Basics of neutrino and gravitational wave astronomy
• Basics of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Fundamental radio astronomy observables
• Principles of radio telescopes, radiometer equation
• Diversity of radio telescope technologies and observatories
• Principles of aperture synthesis imaging; Fourier theory
• Visibility function, sampling, PSF, deconvolution
• The radio interferometer measurement equation (RIME)
• Calibration and self-calibration of radio interferometers
• Practical data reduction, calibration, and imaging