Ders Adı |
Modern Astronomical Optics-I |
Ders Kodu |
OPE512 |
Ders Açıklama |
Introduction to course, Fundamentals of astronomical imaging systems: diffraction limit, photon noise. Fundamentals of space-based imaging systems: System engineering, Project management. Fundamentals of Telescope design: First-order design: plate scale, field of view, pixel size, diffraction limit. Telescope types: refractive, reflective. Wide field of view designs and aberration correction. Space and ground: cryogenic telescopes, design choices, challenges. Measuring large optics. Fabrication challenges and solutions (large optics fabrication, integrating optics and telescope structure). Fundamentals of spectroscopy: science goals, prisms, gratings, spectral resolution, detector sampling, wavelength coverage. Types of spectrographs: slit, multi-object, Integral Field Units (IFUs). |
Ders Kredi |
3 |
ECTS |
6 |