Colleges and Universities Offering Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry in South Africa

Institutions Offering Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry

•  South African Radio Astronomy Observatory SARAO, Cape Town  
  Course Content:
  Introduction to Radio Astronomy:
  - A Brief Introduction To Interferometry
  - A Taste of Radio Astronomy
  - Limitations of Single Dish Astronomy
  - Modern Interferometric Arrays
  Mathematical Background:
  - Positional Astronomy and Coordinate Systems
  - Fourier Theory
  Visibility data from interferometers:
  - The Visibility Space
  Observation systems:
  - Instrumentation
  - RIME: the Radio Interferometer Measurement Equation
  Calibration:
  - Calibration
  Imaging:
  - Imaging
  - Spatial Frequencies, Sampling Functions, and Point Spread Functions
  - Gridding, Weight Functions, the W-term
  Deconvolution:
  - CLEAN: Iterative Deconvolution
  AstroCoffee session:
  - Advanced Radio Astronomy Techniques
  Practical session:
  - An Introduction to CASA

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