ASTR 496

Fall 2007 All Classes

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Seminar in Astronomy

Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Lectures on topics of current interest in astronomy and astrophysics; for advanced undergraduates and graduates. See Class Schedule for current topics.

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

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ASTR 496 class schedule data for fall 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	49361	Lecture	RA	10:00AM -11:20AM	TR	134 Astronomy Building	Sutton, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: ASTR 496 Radio Astronomy Advanced undergraduates with an interest in astronomy. 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.