ASTRONOMY 7620 Spring 2010
ADVANCED RADIO ASTRONOMY SEMINAR
Design, Execution and Application of Extragalactic Surveys
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The rich and homogeneous datasets acquired by recent legacy extragalactic
surveys have enabled studies of the evolution across cosmic time
of galaxies and their stellar populations, their star formation rates
and interstellar media as well as the determination of observational
constraints imposed on large-scale structure, dark matter and dark
energy. This seminar will explore in detail the survey strategies and
technical design of recent legacy-class extragalactic surveys, including
ALFALFA, SDSS, 2MASS, NVSS, etc. and key projects undertaken with HST, Spitzer, GALEX,
Chandra, the VLA and Herschel, as well as their data products and the Virtual
Observatory tools available to mine them. The optimization of strategies of
future extragalactic surveys will be investigated including those
planned using AO40 and CCAT.
Prerequisites: some background in astronomy. Familiarity with techniques
of radio astronomy are helpful but not required.
Wednesdays 2:30-4:25pm EDT
2 credits
Each week, a team of participants, led by a faculty organizer, will make presentations
on selected, coordinated topics. Suggestions and
especially volunteers are welcome!
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