Lecturer: Dr. Chun Sing Leung, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
In these lectures, I will introduce the fundamental concepts and terminologies for the basics radio astronomy. Furthermore, I will show you the online single small radio telescope observation. Furthermore, the simple radio data processing will be demonstrated by making use Python programming. Finally, I will update the recently SKA status and briefly introduce the 21cm cosmology.
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Lecturer: Dr. Jeffrey Hodgson, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
How the Black Hole Image was made
The now infamous image of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) photon ring at the center of the galaxy M 87 (and also now the image of the SMBH at the center of the Milky Way) was created using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Using this technique, we use radio telescopes around the world at the same time to create a telescope that is the size of the Earth. If we do this, we create the worlds highest resolution telescope - equivalent to resolving a human hair in Berlin.. from Cluj.
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a VLBI image of the central engines of quasars. In the process of doing this, I'll teach you how VLBI works. And then, with some practice, you can make a black hole image yourself!
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Registration is free and open until March 8th
Organizers: dr. Tiberiu Harko, dr. Jeff Hodgson, dr. Chun Sing Leung, dr. Gabriela Mocanu
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Contact: gabriela.mocanu@aira.astro.ro
Dr. Chun Sing Leung
Dr. Chun Sing Leung graduated with an MPhil degree in Physics from the University of Hong Kong. He got his PhD from the National Astronomical Observatory in Beijing. Presently he is affiliated with department of applied mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are Dark Matter radio observation and 21cm Cosmology.
Dr Jeff Hodgson
Dr Jeff Hodgson graduated from Curtin University in Perth, Australia with a Bachelors (Hons) in physics. He then moved to Bonn, Germany and received his PhD from the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. He then moved to the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in Daejeon, South Korea, where he worked on using the Korean VLBI Network. He is now an assistant professor at Sejong University, in Seoul South Korea. His research interests include observational cosmology using quasars, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) and high-energy astrophysics using the Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope