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1 Observational & Technical Radio Astronomy Training at HartRAO Programme & Information Guide April 2018 Welcome to HartRAO We hope that you have a productive, enjoyable and interesting visit Radio transmitters may interfere with science operations. All cell phones must be switched OFF inside the security fence. The use of wireless mice, wi-fi and blue-tooth is NOT permitted. If you do not know how to turn off wireless and bluetooth on your laptop please ask us. Please note: All the Lectures will take place in the Lecture Room Invited Talks will take place in the Library Tea and Coffee will be served in the Foyer Lunch and Dinner will be served in the Visitors Centre (VC)
2 MONDAY 09 APRIL: WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS & OVERVIEW 08:30 09:00: Registration in the Foyer 09:00 10:00: Welcome and Introduction (AdW, GC, PS) 10:00 11:00: Participants to introduce themselves/student representatives ( AdW) 11:00 11:30: Tea/ Coffee break 11:30 13:00: Tour of the Facility (AdW/PS/RB) 14:00 15:00: Radio Astronomy Overview - Lecture (MJ) 15:00 16:00: Historical Background of Radio Astronomy & Marconi Experiment - Lecture/Interactive Session (KE/TV) 16:30 17:30: Historical Background of Radio Astronomy - Interactive Session (KE/MJ/JL) TUESDAY 10 APRIL: INTRODUCTION TO RADIO ASTRONOMY 09:00 11:00: Radiometer Equation & Signal Flow - Lecture & Demonstrations (MJ) 11:30 12:30: Radio Antennas Lecture & Demonstration (JL) 12:30-13:00: Introduction to Equipment & Instrumentation (overview) - Lecture (MJ) 14:00 16:00: Introduction to Equipment & Instrumentation - Practicals/Exercises (JL/MJ) 16:30 17:30: Radio Cosmology & the Cosmic Microwave Background - Invited Talk (MJ) WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL: COORDINATE & TIMING SYSTEMS 09:00 10:00: Overview of Coordinate Systems - Lecture (JL) 10:00 11:00: Overview of Coordinate Systems - Exercises (JL) 11:30 12:00: Continue with Exercises (MJ/JL) 12:00 13:00: Time Systems - Lecture (RB) 14:00 15:00: Telescope Pointing - Lecture (JQ) 15:00 16:00: Design of SKA Band 5 - Invited Talk (JL) 16:30 17:30: Introduction to Student Presentations (MJ)
3 THURSDAY 12 APRIL: MICROWAVE RECEIVER SYSTEMS 08:30 09:30: Microwave Receiver Systems - Lecture (KJ) 09:30 11:00: Microwave Receiver Systems - Practicals & Tour (RM/TeV/AdW) 11:30 13:00: Microwave Receiver Systems - Practicals & Tour (RM/TeV/AdW) 14:00 16:00: Microwave Receiver Systems - Exercises ( AdW/RM/TeV) 16:30 17:30: Contnue with exercises/preparing talks FRIDAY 13 APRIL: ASTRONOMY WITH A SMALL RADIO TELESCOPE 08:30 10:00: Calibrating a Small Radio Telescope - Practical (JL/MJ) 10:00 11:00: Measurement Errors - Lecture (JL/MJ) 11:30 13:00: Measuring the Brightness Temperature of the Sun - Exercises (JL/MJ) 14:00 15:00: Design of MeerKAT - Invited Talk (JJ) 15:00 16:00: Continue with exercises/preparing talks 16:30 18:00: Hike 18:30 19:30: Cultural Dinner [labs will close at 18:00] SATURDAY 14 APRIL: EXCURSION 09:00 17:00: Excursion (Buses depart at 09:00) SUNDAY 15 APRIL: NO CLASS, FREE TIME
4 MONDAY 16 APRIL: BAYESIAN STATISTICS & CMB COSMOLOGY 09:00 11:00: Bayesian Statistics, Parametric Modelling & PyMC Lecture (LJ) 11:30 13:00: The CMB & Cosmology Lecture (LJ) 14:00 16:00: Parametric Fitting using PyMC Exercises (LJ) 16:00 16:30: Tea/Coffee break 16:30 18:00: Continue with Exercises (LJ) TUESDAY 17 APRIL: ANTENNA SYSTEMS & RFI 09:00 10:00: Antenna Systems & Maintenance - Lecture (PS) 10:00 11:00: RFI - Lecture (PM) 11:30 12:30: RFI - Demonstration (GK/RM/AdW) 12:30 13:00: RFI - Exercises (PM) 14:00 15:00: Astrophysical Radiation Processes - Lecture (MaB) 15:00 16:00: Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background - Invited Talk (LJ) 16:00 16:30: Tea/Coffee break 16:30 17:30: Student Presentations (4 students) WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL: PULSARS & SETI 09:00 10:00: Pulsars - Lecture (GF) 10:00 11:00: SETI - Lecture (GF) 11:30 11:30: Tea/Coffee break 11:30 13:00: Measuring the Redshift of Voyager - Exercises (GF) 14:00 16:00: Continue with exercises (GF) 16:30 17:30: Introduction to Gamma Ray Astronomy - Invited Talk (NK)
5 THURSDAY 19 APRIL: SANSA VISIT & AMATEUR RADIO ASTRONOMY 09:00 10:00: History of the AVN - Invited Talk (AdW) 10:00 10:20: Tea/Coffee break 10:30 13:00: Half day tour to SANSA - Tour & Invited Talk (EA) 14:00 16:00: Amateur Radio Astronomy - Invited Talk & Demonstration (TV) 16:30 17:30: Antenna Conversion - Invited Talk (JaL) 17:30 18:00: Student Presentations (2 students) FRIDAY 20 APRIL: RADIO CONTINUUM OBSERVATIONS & RADIO SURVEYS 09:00 10:00: Radio Continuum Observations - Lecture ( AdW) 10:00 11:00: Drift Scan Observations and Calibration - Lecture & Demonstration ( AdW) 11:30 13:00: Drift Scan Observations and Calibration - Exercises ( AdW/PVz) 14:00 15:00: Multi-wavelength Astronomy/Radio Surveys - Lecture (KE) 15:00 16:00: Astronomical Data Mining & VO Tools - Lecture (KE) 16:30 18:00: Astronomical Data Mining & VO Tools - Demonstration & Exercises (KE) 18:30 19:30: Star Party [labs will close at 18:00] SATURDAY 21 APRIL: EXCURSION 09:00 17:00: Excursion (Buses depart at 09:00) SUNDAY 22 APRIL: NO CLASS, FREE TIME
6 MONDAY 23 APRIL: INTRODUCTORY INTERFEROMETRY 09:00 10:00: Introduction to Interferometry - Lecture (GF) 10:00 11:00: Two-Element Interferometer - Demonstration & Exercises (GF/LM) 11:30 13:00: Fourier Transforms & Sampling Theorem - Lecture & Exercises (GF) 14:00 15:00: Advanced Interferometry - Lecture (GF) 15:00 16:00: Imaging using CASA - Exercises (GF/LM) 16:30 17:30: Continue with Exercises TUESDAY 24 APRIL: FROM INTERFEROMETRY TO VLBI 09:00 10:00: The Transient Radio Sky: Pulsars, FRBs & SETI - Invited Talk (GF) 10:00 11:00: VLBI Fundamentals I - Lecture (LM) 11:30 13:00: Visit to HartRAO Control Room (JQ/AdW/LM) 14:00 15:00: VLBI Fundamentals II - Lecture (LM) 15:00 16:00: The VLBI Radio Sky - Lecture (PC) 16:30 17:30: The Dynamic VLBI Sky - Invited Talk (MB) WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL: INTRODUCTION TO GEODETIC & ASTROMETRIC VLBI + GAIA 09:00 10:00: Introduction to Geodetic VLBI - Lecture (PC) 10:00 11:00: Astrometric VLBI & the ICRF - Lecture (PC) 11:30 13:00: Exercises using ICRF-2 Data (AdW/SB) 14:00 15:00: The Gaia Space Mission: The Second Data Release - Invited Talk (PC) 15:00 16:00: Exercises using the Newly-Opened Gaia DR2 Archive (PC/AdW) 16:30 17:30: Student Presentations (4 students)
7 THURSDAY 26 APRIL: GEOPHYSICAL MODELLING & EXPERIMENT SCHEDULING 09:00 10:00: Geophysical Modelling and Atmospheric Propagation - Lecture (PC) 10:00 11:00: Planning, Scheduling & Running a VLBI Experiment - Lecture (AdW) 11:30 13:00: Student Presentations (5 students) 14:00 15:00: Student Presentations (4 students) 15:00 16:00: Feedback and discussion session: Student presentations and reports (AdW) 16:30 17:30: The PhD Journey Without Tears - Invited Talk (KE) 18:30 19:30: Dinner [labs will close at 18:00] FRIDAY 27 APRIL: EXCURSION & CLOSING CEREMONY 09:00 10:00: VLBI at Low Frequencies: AGN in XMM-LSS - InvitedTalk (LM) 10:30 Excursion: Closing Ceremony (buses depart at 10:30) 12:00 16:00: Closing Ceremony (SQ) SATURDAY 28 - MONDAY 30 APRIL: NO CLASS, FREE TIME TUESDAY 1 MAY: DEPARTURE, NETWORKING MEETING 14:30: Buses depart
8 Contact Details: Name Affiliation AdW Dr Aletha de Witt HartRAO, SA EA Mr Eugene Avenant SANSA, SA GC Mrs Glenda Coetzer HartRAO, SA GF Dr Griffin Foster Univ. of Oxford, UK GK Ms Gadys Kemei HartRAO, SA JJ Prof Justin Jonas SKA, SA JL Dr Jamie Leech Univ. of Oxford, UK JaL Mr Japie Ludick SKA, SA JQ Dr Jonathan Quick HartRAO, SA KE Dr Khadija EL Bouchefry HartRAO, SA KJ Mr Keith Jones HartRAO, SA LJ Dr Luke Jew Univ. of Oxford, UK LM Dr Leah Morabito Univ. of Oxford, UK MaB Prof Markus Böttcher North-West Univ. Potch, SA MB Dr Michael Bietenholz York Univ., Canada & HartRAO, SA MJ Prof Mike Jones Univ. of Oxford, UK NK Prof Nukri Komin Wits Univ, SA PC Prof Patrick Charlot Université de Bordeaux, France PM Mr Philip Mey HartRAO, SA PS Mr Pieter Stronkhorst HartRAO, SA PvZ Mrs Pfesi Van Zyl HartRAO, SA RB Dr Roelf Botha HartRAO, SA RM Mr Ronnie Myataza HartRAO, SA SB Mr Sayan Basu HartRAO, SA SQ Mrs Sharon Qwabe HartRAO, SA TV Mr Tony Voorvelt Amateur Astronomer, SA TeV Mr Tejas Vedalankar HartRAO, SA
9 01 - HartRAO 26 m dish m dish 03 - SLR/LLR facility 04 - C-BASS dish 02 Reception Accommodation Lecture Room/lab Dining (Lunch/Dinner) Entrance to facility Eng. Workshop Toilet Foyer (Regn., tea/coffee) Control Room 01 Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) facility map [credit: Google Earth, Google Image] No Access Kitchen
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