====== AST 410: Radio Astronomy ======

===== - Content =====

==== - Historical introduction ====
  - [[un:ra|Radio astronomy]]: general introduction to the field (read chapter 1 of the book).
  - [[un:hra|History of radio astronomy]]: a historical overview (understand the history slides).

==== - Electromagnetic radiation ====
  - [[un:Brightness]]: concepts of brightness, intensity, flux, luminosity.
  - [[un:Radiative transfer]]: propagation of radiation through a medium that absorbs and emits.
  - [[un:Polarization]]

==== - Radio telescopes ====
  - [[un:Radiation from acceleration]]
  - [[un:dipole-antenna|Dipole antenna]]
  - [[un:Beam]]

==== - Interferometry and synthesis ====
  - Fourier transform
  - Uniform circular motion and Simple harmonic motion
  - [[https://crpurcell.github.io/friendlyVRI/|The Friendly Virtual Radio Interferometer]]
  - [[https://tart.elec.ac.nz/|START: Small Transient Array Radio Telescope]]

==== - Free-free radiation ====

==== - Synchrotron radiation ====

==== - Spectral lines ====

===== - Project =====
  * [[telescopes:start|Building a TART at IUB]].

===== - Assessment =====
| Formative | Attendance | 10 | 50 | 100 |
|:::| Punctuality | 10 |:::|:::|
|:::| 3 Quizzes | 15 |:::|:::|
|:::| 1 Design project | 15 |:::|:::|
| Summative | Midterm exam | 20 | 50 |:::|
|:::| Final exam | 30 |:::|:::|

===== - Textbooks =====
  - Condon and Ransom, //[[https://science.nrao.edu/opportunities/courses/era|Essential Radio Astronomy]]//, Princeton UP, 2016.