Fifth NAIC/NRAO Single-Dish Summer School

Scientific Program

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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) PPT
• 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) PPT
• 0915 – 1045: Basic Principles of Single-Dish telescopes (Jim Condon) HTML
• 1045 – 1115: Coffee Break
• 1115 – 1200: Theory of Measurements (Brian Mason) PDF
• 1200 – 1330: Lunch
• 1300 – 1330: Lunch Talk - the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (Richard Prestage) PPT
  Movie of first antenna move MOV
• 1330 – 1430: Tracing the Signal down the Telescope (Ron Maddalena) PPT
• 1430 – 1530: Spectral lines (Harvey Liszt) PPT
• 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
• 1600 – 1730: Continuum (Brian Mason) PPT PDF
• 1730 – 1900: Dinner
• 1900 – 0000: Hands-On Observing; Night 2

Tuesday 14th July

• 0700 – 0830: Breakfast
• 0830 – 0930: Pulsars (Scott Ransom) PDF
• 0930 – 1030: Polarization (Carl Heiles) PDF
• 1030 – 1100: Coffee Break
• 1100 – 1200: Short Spacing Corrections from a Single-Dish Perspective (Roland Kothes) PDF
• 1200 – 1330: Conference Photo followed by Lunch
• 1330 – 1400: An Introduction to IDL (Toney Minter) PPT
• 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) PPT
• 1430 – 1530: Special Considerations at Millimeter Wavelengths (Amy Lovell) PPT
• 1530 – 1600: Coffee Break
• 1600 – 1700: Observing Extended Sources (Jay Lockman) PDF
• 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) PPT
• 1400 – 1430: RFI and How to Deal with it (Toney Minter) PPT
• 1430 – 1500: International Issues of Frequency Management (Harvey Liszt) PPT
• 1500 – 1530: Coffee Break
• 1530 – 1615: Receivers and Focal-Plane Arrays (Steve White) PPT
• 1615 – 1700: Large Area Surveys with Multi-frequency Array Receivers (Robert Minchin) PPT
• 1800 – 2100: Conference Banquet with guest speaker (Carl Heiles) PPT

Friday 17th July

• 0700 – 0900: Breakfast
• 0900 – 0930: Writing Effective Telescope Proposals (Chris Salter) PPT
  Accompanying notes PDF
• 0930 – 1030: The Future of the GBT (Jay Lockman) PDF
• 1030 – 1100: Coffee Break
• 1100 – 1200: The Future of the Arecibo 305-m Telescope (Don Campbell) PDF
• 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 PDF
  • GBT-1: GBT 1.4 GHz source counts PPT
  • AO-1: Continuum spectral index measurements PDF
  • AO-2: AO studies of extragalactic neutral hydrogen PPT
  • GBT-6: GBT studies of extragalactic neutral hydrogen PDF
  • AO-3: Planetary radar observing PDF
  • GBT-4: GBT pulsar polarization PPT
  • AO-6: AO observations of intermittent pulsars PDF
  • GBT-2: GBT galactic neutral hydrogen in absorption PDF
  • AO-7: AO HI-line observations of a compact high velocity cloud PDF
  • GBT-3: GBT observations of galactic neutral hydrogen PPT
  • AO-4: AO molecular line observing PDF
  • GBT-5: GBT radio recombination lines PPT
  • AO-8: AO observations of OH/IR stars PPT
  • GBT-7 & AO-5: GBT and AO observations of large galaxies PDF
• 1730 – 1900: Dinner

Saturday 18th July

• Participants Depart