ASTR 596
Seminar in Special Topics

Credit: 0 to 16 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

Section Information
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
49155	lecture	RA	10:00 AM - 11:20 AM	TR	room 134 Astronomy Bldg	Sutton, E
4 hours Astr 596 - Radio Astronomy (CRN 49155) A survey of radio astronomy, including emission mechanisms such as Bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, inverse Compton scattering, recombination lines, and other spectral line emission. Astrophysical sources to be studied will include pulsars, H II regions, radio galaxies, and molecular clouds. Also included will be fundamentals of radiation, antenna theory, receivers, signal processing, aperture synthesis, and other observational methods of radio astronomy. Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students with interests either in the nature of the interstellar medium or in radio frequency instrumentation.

ASTR 596Seminar in Special Topics