2nd MCCT-SKADS - (other mcctskads conferences)
26th August - 4th September 2008
Sigüenza (Spain)
published December 03, 2009
Sigüenza (Spain)
published December 03, 2009
This school on Radioastronomy is the second one of a series of three in the framework of the training activities of the Square Kilometer Array Design Studies (SKADS) initiative. The first edition of the series was held in Bologna in 2007. The main goal is to attract and train potential users of the new generation of radio interferometers, with special focus on the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). This school is not only aimed to radio-astronomers but also to young astronomers/engineers regardless their speciality. A requirement is to have finished the graduate studies. Nationals from EU member and associated countries are fully supported by the MCCT/FP6 programme.
The school covers the following areas:
1. fundamentals of radio astronomy and radio interferometry
2. science highlights particularly relevant to the new generation of radio interferometers and in particular to the SKA
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Scales and orders of magnitude in Astronomy
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Electro-magnetic wave fundamentals and the equation of radiative transfer
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Continuum emission from HII regions and dusty molecular clouds
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Inversion mechanism and maser emission in the interstellar medium
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Determination of the physical parameters of molecular clouds
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Radiation Processes in the Universe: Synchrotron Radiation and Propagation Effects
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The Earth's ionosphere: structure and composition. Dispersive effects, absorption and emission in EM wave propagation
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The Earth’s troposphere: absorption and refraction effects on the propagetion of radio waves
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Radio telescopes
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Amplifiers for Radio Astronomy Receivers
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Cryogenic systems in Radio Astronomy
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Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry
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Noise, sensitivity, dynamic range and image fidelity
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Present radiotelescopes: single-dish, interferometer and telescope networks
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The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared – An Instrument for the Herschel Space Observatory
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The ALMA radio telescope
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Keeping our windows on the radio Universe clean
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Technologies for the Realization of the Square Kilometre Array
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The formation and evolution of galaxies: what we may learn with the SKA
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Cradle of Life
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