Astrophysical Techniques
Convener (Warwick): Thomas Wilson
Module Code: AS2
Duration: 5 weeks
Credits: 2 MPAGS credits
Start Date and Commitments
Start: TBC October 2026
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: TBC October 2026 (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 |
| 4 | TBC | noon-2pm | TBC | Lauren Doyle | Observational Astronomy |
| 5 | TBC | noon-2pm | TBC | Marina Lafarga Magro / Sam Gill | Optical/IR Astronomy - photometry & spectroscopy |
| 6 | TBC | noon-2pm | TBC | Kendall Ackley | Data Mining |
| 7 | TBC | noon-2pm | TBC | Maria de Juan Ovelar | Interferometry |
| 8 | TBC | noon-2pm | TBC | Noel Castro Segura | X-ray Astronomy |
Homework assignments (may be updated up to the day of the session).
The deadline for all assignments is one week after the 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 the lecture on observing. Deadline: TBC 1 week after Lecture 1. Related materials: Seminar SlidesLink 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 the lecture on CCDs, photometry, and spectroscopy. Deadline: TBC 1 week after Lecture 2. Related materials: photometry slides, spectroscopy slides (email: Marina.Lafarga-Magro@warwick.ac.uk, Samuel.Gill@warwick.ac.uk)
- Assignment 3: Data Mining Exercise. Deadline: TBC 1 week after Lecture 3. Related materials: slides, github repo (follow link in readme to run notebook). (email: Kendall.Ackley@warwick.ac.uk)
- Assignment 4: questions related to the lecture on interferometry. Deadline: TBC 1 week after Lecture 4. Related materials: slides. (email: maria.dejuanovelar@warwick.ac.uk)
- Assignment 5Link opens in a new window: questions related to the lecture on X-ray astronomy. Deadline: TBC 1 week after Lecture 5. Related materials: Lecture notes. (email: Noel.Castro-Segura@warwick.ac.uk)