AST 702, Astrophysics Graduate Seminar: Winter 2008-2009

This material can be found online at URL

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/ast701/ast702.html

Outline for the course, class schedule, etc.

Tentative schedule for the quarter

• Week 1: Infrared data from Keck: analyzing "dark frames"
• Week 2: Infrared data from Keck: cleaning and aligning raw images
• Week 3: Estimate the distance to a cluster of stars
• Week 4: Try two different flavors of astrometry

For more information

• Some references we found which describe the profiles of stellar absorption lines:
  • Professor J. B. Tatum's lecture notes from the courses he has taught at the University of Victoria include an entire set of notes on stellar atmospheres.

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