Observational Astronomy
This course will cover observational techniques in astrophysics with a decidedly practical applications perspective - i.e. you'll be coding, you'll be doing data analysis, and you probably won't be doing much deriving. ASTR 310 or strong familiarity with Python is required. We'll be covering gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, sub-mm, mm, and radio astronomy; photometry, imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry; gravitational waves; cosmic rays; neutrinos; positional astronomy; noise; statistics; data analysis; optics, and writing proposals to use the facilities we'll talk about.