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Special Practical Course II - NAST018
Title: Speciální praktikum II
Guaranteed by: Astronomical Institute of Charles University (32-AUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Marek Wolf, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Petr Zasche, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Daniela Korčáková, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Astronomy and Astrophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_AUUK (26.03.2015)
Methods of observations and astrophysical data reduction: Spectroscopy. Description of the 2-m telescope and spectrograph, selection of targets. Emission and absorption spectra. Calibration (comparison spectrum, darkframe, flatfield). Reduction of measured spectra, spectral line identification, radial velocities determination. Tasks are processed via remote access to the 2-m telescope or directly in the dome of AI ASCR in Ondrejov.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Daniela Korčáková, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

The lecture course is closed by the obtaining the course-credits.

The spectroscopic observations are at the 2m telescope at the Ondřejov observatory under the supervision of one of the lecturers. Students have to obtain data and reduce them using the program IRAF (available at the server sirrah of the Astronomical Institute MFF UK). After the reduction, the normalisation of the spectra and identification of the most intense lines is requested. A report from the observation, about the instrument, data reduction, line identification, and a small recherche about an observed object is the requirement for the obtaining of credits.

A small practical course about the data reduction in IRAF is at the beginning of the semester.

Note, considering the weather in the central Europe, we highly recommend to do not wait until the end of the semester.

Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Marek Wolf, CSc. (11.01.2019)

Bradt: Astronomy Methods, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Kitchin, C.R.: Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy, Institute of Physics, 2002

Lawrence, Andy: Astronomical Measurement, A Concise Guide, Springer, 2014

Lena, Pierre et al.: Observational Astrophysics, Springer, 2012

Scott Birney, Gonzalez, Oesper: Observational Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Tennyson, Jonathan: Astronomical Spectroscopy, Imperial College Press, 2007

Walker, Gordon: Astronomical Observations, An Optical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1989

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: WOLF/MFF.CUNI.CZ (26.03.2008)

praktická měření na observatoři v Ondřejově

Syllabus -
Last update: T_AUUK (26.03.2015)

Methods of observations and astrophysical data reduction: Spectroscopy.

Program and objectives:

1. Description of the 2-m telescope and slit spectrograph, dispersion.

2. Selection of targets according to the scientific program: emission

stars, symbitic stars, spectroscopic and eclipsing binaries. Emission

and absorption spectra. Balmer series.

3. Calibration frames (comparison spectrum Th-Ar, darkframe, flatfield).

4. Reduction of measured spectra, spectral line identification, radial

velocities determination.

Tasks are processed via remote access to the 2-m telescope or directly

in the dome of AI ASCR in Ondrejov.

 
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