NAIC/NRAO Single Dish School Program
Schedule
Talks, when available, can be found by clicking on the talk title. All talks should be considered copyright of the author.
Available talks from the 2011 School on Single Dish Radio Astronomy can be found here.
| Sunday, July 05 |
1400 - 1700 | Arrival and Registration (Residence Hall) | |
| 1730 - 1900 | Dinner with Hands-on teams for strategy planning | ||
| 1900 - 1930 | Hands-on observing overview (S. Heatherly) |
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| 1930-0700 | Hands-On Observing with the 40ft telescope |
| Monday, July 06 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0830 - 0845 | Registration (Jy-Lab) | |
| 0845 - 0900 | Welcome to Green Bank and School Practicalities | |
| 0900 - 1000 | Science Highlights from the Green Bank Telescope (J. Lockman) and from the Arecibo Telescopes (C. Salter) |
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| 1000 - 1045 | An Introduction to Radio Astronomy Essentials (F. Ghigo) Includes an overall description of the basic ideas of radio astronomy, such as wavelengths, atmosphere, etc |
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| 1045 - 1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 - 1200 | Radio Telescope Fundamentals (J. Condon) Antenna theory and radiometers |
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| 1200 - 1230 | Science Talk (E. Rivera-Valentin) |
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| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1430 | Tracing the Signal through the Telescope System (R. Maddalena); Handout is also available here |
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| 1430 - 1530 |
Radiation Fundamentals (S. Ransom): Brightness Temperatures (Part I); Radiation Transfer (Part II) |
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| 1530 - 1545 | Coffee Break | |
| 1545 - 1645 | Receivers (R. Bradley) An overview of receiver types - single feeds, traditional arrays, phased arrays, and bolometers [Talk not available] |
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| 1645 - 1730 | Hands-on Project Planning | |
| 1730 - 1900 | Dinner | |
| 1900 - 0000 | Arecibo Observing Projects |
| Tuesday, July 07 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0800 - 1045 | GBT Tour | |
| or 0830 - 1045 | Machine Shop, Control Room and Lab Tours | |
| 1045 - 1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 - 1200 | Pulsars (R. Lynch) Pulsar properties, searching and timing pulsars, small amount on time domain astronomy generally |
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| 1200 - 1230 | Science Talk - Imaging the Epoch of Reioniztion with PAPER and HERA (R. Bradley) [Talk not available] | |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1430 | Spectral lines (R. Minchin) Includes spectral lines, recombination lines, radiative transfer, and molecular, and atomic sources |
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| 1430 - 1530 | Continuum (B. Mason) An overview of thermal and non-thermal emission, observing issues (confusion, gain fluctuation) |
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| 1530 - 1545 | Coffee Break | |
| 1545 - 1645 | Polarization (C. Heiles) Includes Zeeman splitting, linear polarization, Stokes parameters, beam squint/squash, and Mueller matrices |
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| 1645 - 1730 | Hands-on Project Planning and Data Reduction | |
| 1730 - 1900 | Dinner | |
| 1900 - 0000 | GBT and Arecibo Observing Projects |
| Wednesday, July 08 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0800 - 1045 | GBT Tour | |
| or 0830 - 1045 | Machine Shop, Control Room and Lab Tours | |
| 1045 - 1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 - 1145 | Signal Processing Fundamentals I (J. Ford) Signal Processing basics, FPGA architecture |
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| 1145 - 1230 | Signal Processing Fundamentals II (R. Prestage) VEGAS, GUPPI, etc. |
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| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1430 | Radar Observations (P. Taylor) |
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| 1430 - 1530 | Observing Extended Sources (J. Lockman) Includes stray radiation |
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| 1530 - 1545 | Coffee Break | |
| 1545 - 1645 | Calibration and Observing Techniques (D. Frayer) Basic calibration techniques, temperature scales (Ta, Ta*, Tmb, Tr*), and observing techniques including position switching and frequency switching |
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| 1645 - 1730 | Hands-on Projects | |
| 1730 - 1900 | Dinner | |
| 1900 - 0000 | GBT and Arecibo Observing Projects |
| Thursday, July 09 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0845 - 0945 | Single Dish Mapping Techniques (A. Ford) |
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| 0945 - 1045 | Combining Single Dish Zero-Spacing Data with Interferometric Maps (A. Kepley) |
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| 1045 - 1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 - 1230 | Canned Data Reduction Projects Working with telescope data that is of different type than your hands-on projects, split up into groups |
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| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1400 | Science Talk (A. Kobelski) | |
| 1400 - 1530 | Project Data Reduction and Analysis | |
| 1530 - 1545 | Coffee Break | |
| 1545 - 1730 | Project Data Reduction and Analysis (continue) and Project Presentation Preparation | |
| 1730 - 1900 | Dinner | |
| 1900 - 0000 | GBT and Arecibo Observing Projects and/or Project Presentation Preparation (if needed) |
| Friday, July 10 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0845 - 0915 | Writing Effective Telescope Proposals (C. Salter) Using Arecibo as the example (Handout is also available) |
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| 0915 - 0945 | GBT and NRAO proposal specifics (T. Minter) |
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| 0945 - 1045 | NANOGrav Science Program (M. McLaughlin) |
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| 1045 - 1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 - 1130 | The atmosphere, including weather (D. Balser) Including the effects of the atmosphere on observations, ionospheric effects, refraction, opacity, wind-induced pointing errors, frequency-dependence of absorption, and anomalous refraction |
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| 1130 - 1200 | Science Talk (A. Seymor) |
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| 1200 - 1230 | Final Project Presentation preparation/load talks!!! | |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1530 | Hands-on Presentations | |
| 1530-1600 | Closing Thoughts - The Future of Radio Astronomy (K. O'Neil) | |
| 1600 - 1630 | Wine and cheese reception |
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| 1630-1730 | Guest speaker Amy Lovell on comets and radio astronomy (TBD) | |
| 1800 - 2100 | Banquet Dinner with music by the Elk River Ramblers and awarding of certificates |
| Saturday, July 11 |
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast |
| 0900 - 1200 | Single Dish School Departures | |
| 1200 - 1300 | Lunch | |
| 1400 - 2200 | NRAO Picnic Activities, Dinner, and Fireworks |
