Fifth NAIC/NRAO Single-Dish Summer School
Arecibo Observatory
July 12 – 18, 2009
Scientific Program
Printable Version (PDF)
Sunday 12th July
- 1000 – 1400: Conference Registration in the Learning Centre
- 1400 – 1430: Welcome to Arecibo Observatory (Mike Nolan)
- 1430 – 1530: Radio Astronomy Fundamentals (Jim Condon) HTML
- 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
- 1600 – 1700: Introduction to Radio Telescopes (Frank Ghigo)
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- 1700 – 1730: The Hands-On Projects; Organization and Logistics
- 1730 – 1900: Dinner
- 1900 – 0000: Hands-On Observing; Night 1
Monday 13th July
- 0700 – 0830: Breakfast
- 0830 – 0915: Why Single Dishes? (Chris Salter)
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- 0915 – 1045: Basic Principles of Single-Dish telescopes (Jim
Condon) HTML
- 1045 – 1115: Coffee Break
- 1115 – 1200: Theory of Measurements (Brian Mason)
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- 1200 – 1330: Lunch
- 1300 – 1330: Lunch Talk - the Atacama Large Millimetre Array
(Richard Prestage)
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Movie of first antenna move
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- 1330 – 1430: Tracing the Signal down the Telescope (Ron
Maddalena)
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- 1430 – 1530: Spectral lines (Harvey Liszt)
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- 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
- 1600 – 1730: Continuum (Brian Mason)
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- 1730 – 1900: Dinner
- 1900 – 0000: Hands-On Observing; Night 2
Tuesday 14th July
- 0700 – 0830: Breakfast
- 0830 – 0930: Pulsars (Scott Ransom)
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- 0930 – 1030: Polarization (Carl Heiles)
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- 1030 – 1100: Coffee Break
- 1100 – 1200: Short Spacing Corrections from a Single-Dish Perspective
(Roland Kothes)
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- 1200 – 1330: Conference Photo followed by Lunch
- 1330 – 1400: An Introduction to IDL (Toney Minter)
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- 1400 – 1500: GBT & Arecibo canned data reduction demo
- 1500 – 1530: Coffee Break
- 1530 – 1730: GBT & Arecibo canned data reduction hands-on
practice, and/or “a show and tell” of various pieces of hardware
for interested participants
- 1730 – 1900: Dinner
- 1900 – 0000: Hands-On Observing; Night 3
Wednesday 15th July
- 0700 – 0830: Breakfast
- 0830 – 1000: Hands-On Projects; Data reduction
- 1000 – 1030: Coffee Break
- 1030 – 1200: Hands-On Projects; Data reduction (Continued)
- 1200 – 1330: Lunch
- 1330 – 1430: Calibration Techniques at Radio Wavelengths (Ron
Maddalena)
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- 1430 – 1530: Special Considerations at Millimeter Wavelengths (Amy
Lovell)
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- 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
- 1600 – 1700: Observing Extended Sources (Jay Lockman)
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- 1700 – 1900: Dinner
Thursday 16th July
- 0700 – 0830: Breakfast
- 0830 – 1000: Hands-On Projects; Data reduction (Continued)
- 1000 – 1030: Coffee Break
- 1030 – 1200: Hands-On Projects; Data reduction (Continued)
- 1200 – 1330: Lunch
- 1330 – 1400: Planetary Radar Astronomy (Ellen Howell)
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- 1400 – 1430: RFI and How to Deal with it (Toney Minter)
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- 1430 – 1500: International Issues of Frequency Management (Harvey
Liszt)
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- 1500 – 1530: Coffee Break
- 1530 – 1615: Receivers and Focal-Plane Arrays (Steve White)
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- 1615 – 1700: Large Area Surveys with Multi-frequency Array Receivers
(Robert Minchin)
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- 1800 – 2100: Conference Banquet with guest speaker (Carl Heiles)
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Friday 17th July
- 0700 – 0900: Breakfast
- 0900 – 0930: Writing Effective Telescope Proposals (Chris Salter)
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Accompanying notes PDF
- 0930 – 1030: The Future of the GBT (Jay Lockman)
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- 1030 – 1100: Coffee Break
- 1100 – 1200: The Future of the Arecibo 305-m Telescope (Don Campbell)
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- 1200 – 1330: Lunch
- 1330 – 1530: Preparation for Hands-On Presentations
- 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
- 1600 – 1730: Hands-on Presentations (6-min talks)
- AO-9: AO Instrumentation
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- GBT-1: GBT 1.4 GHz source counts
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- AO-1: Continuum spectral index measurements
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- AO-2: AO studies of extragalactic neutral hydrogen
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- GBT-6: GBT studies of extragalactic neutral hydrogen
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- AO-3: Planetary radar observing
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- GBT-4: GBT pulsar polarization
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- AO-6: AO observations of intermittent pulsars
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- GBT-2: GBT galactic neutral hydrogen in absorption
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- AO-7: AO HI-line observations of a compact high velocity cloud
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- GBT-3: GBT observations of galactic neutral hydrogen
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- AO-4: AO molecular line observing
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- GBT-5: GBT radio recombination lines
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- AO-8: AO observations of OH/IR stars
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- GBT-7 & AO-5: GBT and AO observations of large galaxies
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- 1730 – 1900: Dinner
Saturday 18th July