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Advanced methods of solar physics - NAST038
Title: Pokročilé metody sluneční fyziky
Guaranteed by: Astronomical Institute of Charles University (32-AUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [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. Mgr. Michal Švanda, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Astronomy and Astrophysics
Comes under: Doporučené přednášky 1/2
Annotation -
Last update: T_AUUK (25.03.2015)
A lecture targeted to students with the interest to solar research and advanced methods of spectroscopy and data processing. According to the current interest of the enrolled students a selection of topics will be taught including the correction of observations for seeing, optical aberations and stray-light effects, image processing, noise suppression, construction of solar instruments, spectropolarimetry, emission-lines diagnostics, and others.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Švanda, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature -
Last update: T_AUUK (23.03.2015)

Stix, Michael 2004, The Sun : An Introduction, 2nd ed., by Michael Stix. Astronomy and astrophysics library, Berlin: Springer, 2004. ISBN: 3540207414

Stix, Michael 1989, The Sun. An Introduction, XIII, 390 pp. 192 figs. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library

Foukal, Peter V. 2004, Solar Astrophysics, 2nd, Revised Edition, pp. 480. ISBN 3-527-40374-4. Wiley-VCH , April 2004.

Kippenhahn, Rudolf 1994, Discovering the secrets of the Sun, Chichester; New York: Wiley (v českém překladu Odhalená tajemství Slunce, edice Kolumbus, nakladatelství Mladé fronty, 1999).

Gibson, E. G. 1973, The Quiet Sun, NASA SP, Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Sturrock, P. A. 1986, Physics of the Sun, Volumes I-III., Dordrecht : Reidel, pp. 257+385+287

Living summaries of solar physics: http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/

Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Švanda, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Lecture.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Švanda, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

During the oral exam, the student presents the selected topic according to the negotiation with the teacher. These topics cover the subject's syllable.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_AUUK (25.03.2015)

A lecture targeted to students with the interest to solar research and advanced methods of spectroscopy and data processing. According to the current interest of the enrolled students a selection of topics from the following will be taught:

Basics of spectroscopy. Inversions of spectral lines.

Issues with solar observations. Planning of observations. Seeing, optical aberations, stray-light and their corrections. Active and adaptive optics, image reconstructions: Specle interferometry, phase diversity.

Fourier transform in spectroscopy and image processing. Image segmentation. Noise and its suppression.

Spectral gratings. Construction of solar telescopes, spectrographs. Calculation of the grating incident angle. Reduction of 2D spectra.

Filters and monochromators.

Measurements of velocity and magnetic fields. Spectropolarimetry.

Spectroscopy in UV and X-rays.

Interferometry.

Time-distance helioseismology in details.

And possibly others according to the actual needs.

 
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