Second Romania-Hong Kong radio astronomy school 2023
March 10th - April 6th 2023
(online lectures)
Lecture 1
Radio astronomy basics and some concepts. In the first lecture, I will introduce some terminology and simple calculations in terms of basic concept for radio astronomy.
Lecturer: Dr. Chun Sing Leung, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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March 10th 2023, 09:00 am -10:30 am GMT
Lecture 2
Small single dish radio astronomy online observation and simple data processing with Python. For the second lecture, I will try to show online single dish radio observations and simple radio data processing.
Lecturer: Dr. Chun Sing Leung, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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March 17th, 09:00 am -10:30 am GMT
Lecture 3
A general background to radio interferometry and its history, hands-on tutorial with real data and image reconstruction.
Requirements: Difmap. An imaging software that runs on Linux. People running Linux or Mac can install it directly. Windows users will need to either run Linux through a VM or use Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).
Lecturer: Dr. Jeffrey Hodgson, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
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March 24th, 09:00 am -10:30 am GMT
Lecture 4
Going forwards in time: measuring apparent superluminal motions in quasars, and if time permits, attempting to image the black-hole ring.
Requirements: Difmap. An imaging software that runs on Linux. People running Linux or Mac can install it directly. Windows users will need to either run Linux through a VM or use Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).
Lecturer: Dr. Jeffrey Hodgson, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
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March 31st, 09:00 am -10:30 am GMT
Lecture 5
I would like to update the recent status for the SKA and briefly introduce the 21cm Cosmology.
Lecturer: Dr. Chun Sing Leung, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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April 6th, 09:00 am -10:30 am GMT