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Second Romania-Hong Kong radio astronomy school 2023

March 10th - April 6th 2023
(online lectures)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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