Convener (Warwick): Thomas Wilson

Module Code: AS2

Duration: 5 weeks

Credits: 2 MPAGS credits

Start Date and Commitments

Start: 30/10/24

Teams meetings have be scheduled and all registered internal and external students have be added to the Teams where they can join live meetings. If you have registered but can not join the Teams group, please email course coordinator Thomas Wilson (thomas.g.wilson@warwick.ac.uk) and MPAGS Astro coordinator Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (p.tremblay@warwick.ac.uk).

Registration Deadline: 23/10/24 (for late registration email course coordinator Thomas Wilson - thomas.g.wilson@warwick.ac.uk)

If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible *and* email course coordinator to access live meetings. Any connection problems should also be reported to the course coordinator who will endeavour to find a solution. Session recordings will be made on a best-effort basis - lecturers are not obliged to replace failed or faulty recordings.

Troubleshooting: If you already have a Microsoft account and want to use it, open the Teams application, go to 1) Settings 2) Accounts 3) Current and write down the email address under your account. You will need to send us that exact email address if you want to join under that account.

Timetable

Week	Date	Time	Room	Session leaders	Topic
5	Wednesday Oct 30th	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Lauren Doyle	Observational Astronomy
6	Wednesday Nov 6th	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Marina Lafarga Magro / Sam Gill	Optical/IR Astronomy - photometry & spectroscopy
7	Wednesday Nov 13th	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Kendall Ackley	Data Mining
8	Wednesday Nov 20th	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Grant Kennedy	Interferometry
9	Wednesday Nov 27th	noon-2pm	Millburn A1.28	Noel Castro Segura	X-ray Astronomy

Home work assignments (may be updated up to day of the session).
The deadline for all assignments is one week after lecture. A pass mark for 2 MPAGS credits will be awarded for a valid attempt on at least four of the five assignments.

• Assignment 1Link opens in a new window: questions related to lecture on observing. Deadline: Wed 8th Nov. Related materials: seminar materialLink opens in a new window, Astronomical seeingLink opens in a new window, StellariumLink opens in a new window (email: Lauren.Doyle@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 2: questions related to lecture on CCDs, photometry, and spectroscopy. Deadline Wed 13th Nov. Related materials: photometry slides, spectroscopy slides (email: Marina.Lafarga-Magro@warwick.ac.uk, Samuel.Gill@warwick.ac.uk)

• Assignment 3: data mining exercise. Related materials: slides, github repo (follow link in readme to run notebook). (email: Kendall.Ackley@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 4: questions related to lecture on interferometry. Related materials: slides. (email: G.Kennedy@warwick.ac.uk)
• Assignment 5Link opens in a new window: questions related to lecture on X-ray astronomy. Related materials: Lecture notes. (email: Noel.Castro-Segura@warwick.ac.uk)