Optical/IR Astronomy - photometry assignment

Slides for photometry

For the photometry assignment, you will need Python and be able to run a jupyter notebook (have a look online here if you need help).

For this assignment, you will take a night of binned observations from the Next Generation Transit Survey and perform aperture photometry to extract a light curve.

You will need to download:

1. The jupyter notebook
2. The MJD file.
3. The FLUX file.
4. The WCS file.

I would like you to work through the Jupyter notebook, fill in the missing RA and Dec values, and make the plots. I would then like you to send me 2 of the plots, and a comment on what you can see in the final lightcurve.

Please send your results to samuel.gill@warwick.ac.uk

Optical/IR Astronomy - spectroscopy assignment

Slides spectroscopy

For the spectroscopy assignment, you will also need Python and be able to run a jupyter notebook, as well as the software DS9 (you can download and install it from here https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/saoimageds9/download).

In this assignment, you will extract the long-slit spectra of two stars with DS9 and some python code. To do that you will need to download:

1. The jupyter notebook
2. The science observation in FITS format (to be read with DS9)
3. The same science observation in .npy format (ready to be read in python)

You have all the instructions to complete the assignment and the questions to be answered in the jupyter notebook. Let me know if you have any issues with anything and send your results to marina.lafarga-magro@warwick.ac.uk