AST325H/326Y

2005/2006 TA: Brian Lee

News:

Feb. 11: Note that you can edit IRAF package parameters. For example, the dispersion axis can be controlled via a package parameter instead of via an individual task parameter.
Feb. 6: 16" spectrograph calibration material can be found here.
Feb. 6: Assignment #4 posted below.
Dec. 8: The conversion between time and phase is: phase=(time%period)/period, or phase=(time/period) - int(time/period).
Dec. 8: Assignment 3/project hint sheet text available electronically in case you need it (see below).
Oct. 19: More LaTeX documentation can be found on the LaTeX site; see www.latex-project.org/guides/
Oct. 18: Assignment #2 posted today (see below).
Oct. 18: Go to this page and scroll to the bottom to find a link to download the not-so-short introduction to LaTeX. (You can download the lshort.pdf or lshort.ps guide near the bottom of the directory that the link takes you to.)
Oct. 6: See this page for a simple IRAF flatfielding exercise you should try based on the images you downloaded on Tuesday.
Sep. 29: Please use the ApJ bibliography standard (Authors. Year, journal, volume, page) for citing papers on your assignments. For an example which also includes books and astro-ph preprints, read the references section at the end of this paper: Charbonneau et al. 2000, ApJ, 529, L45. (Ignore the hyperlinks in the online version.)
Sep. 20: A link for an awk tutorial is posted in the Handouts and Helpfiles section.
Sep. 20: The format for printing columns 1,3,5 (space-delimited) in awk is awk '{print $1,$3,$5}' datafile.dat > newfile.dat
Sep. 20: Assignment #1 posted today (see below).

HANDOUTS & HELPFILES

   Unix handout
   other unix stuff

   IRAF handout
   IRAF tutorial instructions
   IRAF tutorial image one
   IRAF tutorial image two

CCD Theory and Data Pre-Processing handouts

   Basic Photometry handout I
   Basic Photometry handout II
   Photometric Calibration handout

Spectroscopy

   Spectroscopic Reduction handout

Learning LaTeX:
   LaTeX Project homepage
   Sample Latex files
   Not-so-short introduction to LaTeX

    You need to have the style file in the directory that you are working in for latex to compile correctly.

   LaTeX Symbols
   More LaTex Symbols
   LaTeX Fonts

   Wenguang Wang's LaTeX Introduction

LaTeX for Windows:
   How to install LaTeX (MiKTeX) on Windows
   Installing MiKTeX

UNIX tools:
    awk

Plotting Packages:
    SuperMongo

ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment #5: Radial Velocities. Click here for assignment 5 in PDF format.
Assignment #4: Spectroscopic Preprocessing and Wavelength Calibration. Click here for assignment 4 in PDF format.
Assignment #3: Photometry. Click here for assignment 3 in PDF format.
Assignment #2: IRAF Fundamentals. Click here for assignment 2 in PDF format.
Assignment #1: WWW Astronomy. Click here for assignment 1 in PDF format.