ERIS Lecture Notes and Tutorials
Learning Radio Astronomy
The European Radio Interferometry School 2022 is a one-week workshop on radio astronomy data acquisition, reduction, and analysis. This event is sponsored by OPTICON-RadioNET Pilot and is hosted by Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) as well as Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON).
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| A view towards the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. Credit: Irham T. Andika |
The materials covered by the lectures/tutorials includes:
- Calibration and imaging of continuum, spectral line, and polarization data.
- Low frequency (LOFAR domain), cm-wave (e-MERLIN domain), decimeter-wave (HI/OH domain), high frequency (ALMA/IRAM domain), and VLBI interferometry.
- Extracting the information from astronomical data and interpreting the results
- Choosing the most suitable array and observing plan for the proposed project.
Lecture Notes
The presentation materials given during the school can be accessed in the link below.
Tutorials
For the basic tutorials, please check the website below to get hands-on practice with data. The page will guide you in installing the Common Astronomy Software Applications (CASA), testing your installation, and downloading the tutorial data. The instruction includes a quick ‘how-to’ install CASA for Linux and macOS. A small tutorial on testing your CASA installation is included as well.
Note that for this part you will need the Python 3.8 version installed because the Python 3.6 version has some issues with the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) advanced tutorial.
The materials and instructions for the VLBI tutorials can be found on the page below.
Centimeter/VLBI (EVN) EVN Continuum Workshop
If you are interested to learn about the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data, imaging, and analysis, you can check the following slides.
Millimeter/spectral line (ALMA)
In addition, the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) data processing and some topics on radio polarisation are available in the slides below.
Meter/wide-field (LOFAR) Centimeter/polarisation (e-MERLIN)
Feel free to ask me if you need more information on the provided materials.
