About Course
In this course, you will learn critical basic aspects of radio astronomy, allowing you to relate radio observations to the astrophysical sources they probe. We thus deal with both the electromagnetic processes in the Universe that produce radio emission, as well as the workings of the telescopes that measure this radio emission. This course is the necessary preparation for the LOFAR Data School 2024.
Note: To complete Chapter 3, access to Jupyter Notebooks is required.
Course Content
1 – Introduction
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Radio waves
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Brief historical overview
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Quiz: Radio waves and brief historical overview
2 – Emission mechanisms
3 – Radio interferometry
4 – LOFAR science cases
5 – LOFAR
Student Ratings & Reviews
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Very useful and informative
I found this elearning material well done and exhaustive. Thank you for creating it!
Very good introduction for me who was vaguely familiar with the terms but knew little about how they go together. At the end, the acronyms started to get somewhat overwhelming. I'd suggesting splitting the "how LOFAR works" section into multiple, because I feel it is important to understand the calibration and data acquisition and reduction concepts.
- Some parts are too detailed e.g. Data processing.
- I think the content of ipynb is too difficult for me. It might be because my knowledge is not good enough. The questions are too hard and broad for me to answer by just learning the results from changing initial parameters on my own.
- I think the content of ipynb is too difficult for me. It might be because my knowledge is not good enough. The questions are too hard and broad for me to answer by just learning the results from changing initial parameters on my own.
The course was interesting and well organised. I liked the jupyter notebook.
Good explanations, but the last chapter was a bit too technical I think.
It was a good overview on radio astronomy.