SUBJECT

Title

Advanced Astronomical Informaion Technology 1-2

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Part of degree program

Astronomy MSc

Credits

2+2

Recommended in

Semesters 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Semester 1: Review of programming skills: algorithms, C or C++ programming languages. Overview of the basic numerical methods; implemening Euler's method; implemening Runge-Kuta methods; elements of parallel programming; CUDA / OpenMP / MPI

Semester 2: overview of astronomical image processing; IDL (Interacive Data Language) programming language; data analysis using IDL; image processing using IDL; IDL Astronomy Users Library (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Readings

Press & Teukolsky: Numerical recipes. 3rd ed., Cambridge UP, 2007
Bowman: An introducion to programming with IDL. Academic press, 2005
Kartunen et al.: Fundamental Astronomy. 5Th ed., Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-34143-7