Reading material for Astronomical Observing Techniques 2

1. Chapter 1, Introduction and Section 1.1 (astrophysical information carriers)
2. Chapter 1, Section 1.2 (properties of photons and electromagnetic waves)
3. Chapter 3, Introduction and Section 3.1 (radiation quantities)
4. Chapter 3, Section 3.2.1 (blackbody radiation)
5. Chapter 3, Section 3.3 (magnitudes)
6. Chapter 2, Introduction and Section 2.1 (effects and structure of atmosphere)
7. Chapter 2, Section 2.2 (atmospheric absorption)
8. Chapter 3, Section 3.4 (photometry through the atmosphere)
9. Chapter 2, Section 2.3 (atmospheric emission)
10. Chapter 2, Section 2.4 (atmospheric scattering)
11. Chapter 2, Section 2.5 (atmospheric refraction and dispersion)
12. Chapter 2, Section 2.6, only qualitatively (atmospheric turbulence)
13. Chapter 2, Section 2.7 (ground-based observing sites)
14. Chapter 2, Section 2.8 and 2.9 (observing from space)
15. Appendix A (basic Fourier theory)
16. Chapter 4, Introduction and Section 4.1 (Imaging through geometrical optics)
17. Chapter 4, Section 4.2.3 (Imaging through wave optics)
18. Chapter 4, Introduction Section 4.3 (Telescopes in practice)
19. Chapter 4, Section 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 until Michelson Interferometry (p. 150) (Large telescopes)
20. Chapter 4, Section 4.3.4 (Space telescopes)
21. Chapter 4, Section 4.3.5 and 4.3.6 (X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes)
22. Chapter 4, Section 4.4 Introduction (seeing)
23. Chapter 4, Section 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 (mathematics of seeing)
24. Chapter 4, Section 4.4.4 (adaptive optics)
25. Chapter 5, Introduction (spectroscopy)
26. Chapter 5, Section 5.2 (spectral data)
27. Chapter 5, Section 5.3 Introduction and Section 5.3.1 (figures of merit)
28. Chapter 5, Section 5.3.3 until Multi-Object Spectroscopy (p. 226) (grating spectrographs, echelles)
29. Chapter 5, Section 5.3.3 from Multi-Object Spectroscopy (p. 226) until The Spectroheliograph (p. 230) (multiplexing with grating spectrographs)
30. Chapter 5, Sections 5.3.2 and 5.3.5 (interference filters, Fabry-Perot spectrometers)
31. Chapter 5, Section 5.3.4 except The Holographic Fourier Spectrometer (p. 235) (Fourier Transform Spectrograph)
32. Appendix B, Section B.1 (random variables)
33. Chapter 6, Section 6.1.3 (random variables and sampling)
34. Appendix B, Section B.2, only Poisson process (p. 245-246) (photon stream as Poisson process)
35. Chapter 6, Introducion, Sections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 and 6.2.1 (NEP and NEFD)
36. Chapter 7, Introducion and Section 7.1 (detector characterisctics)
37. Chapter 7, Section 7.2 Introduction (photon detection methods)
38. Chapter 7, Section 7.2.1 until extrinsic photoconductor (p. 301) (intrinsic photoconductors)
39. Chapter 7, Section 7.2.1 from extrinsic photoconductor (p. 301) until photovoltaic effect (p. 303) (extrinsic photoconductors)
40. Chapter 7, Section 7.2.1 from photovoltaic effect until quantum wells (p. 303) (photovoltaic detectors)
41. Chapter 7, Section 7.2.1 from thermal effects (p. 308) and Section 7.3.5 from bolometers (p. 343) (bolometers)
42. Chapter 7, Section 7.2.1 from photochemical effect until photoionization of gases (p. 304) and Section 7.3.1 (photographic plates)
43. Chapter 7, Section 7.3.3 until infrared solid-state imagers (p. 332) except the reticon (p. 326) and Section 7.3.1 (CCDs)
44. Chapter 7, Section 7.3.3 from infrared solid-state imagers (p. 332) except detectors coupled to a CCD (p. 333) (infrared arrays)
45. Chapter 6, Section 6.2 until quantum noise (Section 6.2.1) (incoherent vs. coherent detection)

1. Chapter 10, Sections 10.3 through 10.5 (properties of arrays)
2. Chapter 10, Section 10.9 (S/N ratio of detectors with readout noise)

1. Chapter 1, Sections 1.1 through 1.5 (Rayleigh-Jeans approximation and brightness temperature)
2. Chapter 1, Section 1.6 (Nyquist theorem and noise temperature)
3. Chapter 4, Section 4.2.2 (only the result) (radiometer equation)
4. Chapter 4, Section 4.2.3 until table 4.2 (p. 67) (receiver stability)
5. Chapter 8, Section 8.4.4 (switching techniques)
6. Chapter 4, Section 4.2.1 (minimum noise of a coherent system)
7. Chapter 4, Section 4.3.2 Introduction and Sections 4.3.2.1 and 4.3.2.2 (receiver components)
8. Chapter 4, Section 4.3.2.3 (mixers)
9. Chapter 4, Section 4.6 Introduction (local oscillators)
10. Chapter 4, Section 4.4.5 Introduction and Sections 4.4.5.1 and 4.4.5.3 (mixer implementation)
11. Chapter 4, Section 4.4.5.2 (amplifiers)
12. Chapter 4, Sections 4.6.1 and 4.6.3 (principle only) (filter bank and acousto-optical spectrograph)
13. Chapter 4, Section 4.6.2 and its subsections (no proofs) (autocorrelator spectrograph)
14. Chapter 5, Section 5.5 Introduction and Sections 5.5.1 and 5.5.2 (antenna pattern)
15. Chapter 5, Section 5.5.3 (aperture efficiency)
16. Chapter 5, Section 5.5.4 (antenna temperature and brightness temperature)
17. Chapter 8, Sections 8.2.1, 8.2.2 and 8.2.3 (main beam brightness temperature)
18. Chapter 6, Sections 6.2 and 6.3 (antennas and Fourier optics)
19. Chapter 6, Section 6.4 (feeds and focal arrangements)
20. Chapter 6, Sections 6.5 (qualitative) and 6.6 (dish surface properties)
21. Chapter 7, Section 7.1 (introduction to aperture synthesis)
22. Chapter 7, Section 7.4 until In order to understand (P. 167) (adding and correlating interferometers)
23. Chapter 7, Section 7.4 from In order to understand (P. 167) (interferometer response)
24. Chapter 7, Section 7.5 (aperture synthesis)
25. Chapter 7, Section 7.8 (VLBI)
26. Chapter 7, Section 7.7 (synthesized beam)
27. Chapter 8, Section 8.5 Introduction and Sections 8.5.1 and 8.5.3 (deconvolution)
28. Chapter 8, Section 8.5, Section 8.5.5 (self-calibration)