SUBJECT
Title
Astronomical spectroscopy 1-2
Type of instruction
practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2+2
Recommended in
Semesters 1-2
Typically offered in
Autumn/Spring semester
Course description
- Electromagneic radiaion, astronomical sources in the visible and other spectral ranges
- History and basics of astronomical spectroscopy
- Spectroscopes, how they work and their applicaion in astrophysics
- Infrared and ultraviolet spectra of stars, interstellar medium, galaxies, AGN-s
- X-ray sources and their spectra
- Spectral analysis sotware tools: IDL, IRAF, and CLASS (GILDAS)
- Reducion and analysis of HI 21cm, CO (J=1-0) 2,6mm and NH3 (1,1) 1,3cm spectra
- Reducion and analysis of opical spectra of stars, spectral classiicaion
- Reducion and analysis of opical spectra of galaxies, determinaion of redshit
- Wriing spectroscopic observaion proposals for measurements with facility telescopes: one for the visible and one outside the visible range
Readings
- Philip Massey and Margaret M. Hanson, „Astronomical Spectroscopy”, htp://www.physics.uc.edu/~hanson/AstronomicalSpectroscopy.pdf
- Freedman and Kaufmann: Universe. 8th ed., W. H. Freeman Publ., 2007, ISBN: 978-0716785842
- Bradley et al.: Introducion to Modern Astrophysics. 2Nd ed., Benjamin Cummings Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-0805304022