AstroTech: The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 物理与地球科学 大学或机构: The University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学） 授课老师： Catherine Heymans Andy Lawrence

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/astrotech

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课程简介

How astronomy really works - an overview of the technology that astronomers use to collect and measure light from the universe, and how it is used in practice to make scientific discoveries.

课程大纲

Week-1 - Science and Technology : a marriage made in Heaven

•   Our Knowledge of the Universe
•   Revolutions in Astronomy
•   Why Astronomy is hard
•   The Horse and the Cart

 

Week-2 - Telescopes : Picturing the Universe

•   Example story : we are stardust
•   The technology : how telescopes work
•   Putting it together : we are stardust part II 
•   Big Telescopes of the future

 

Week-3 - Space : Getting above it all

•   Example story : hunting for black holes
•   The technology : rockets, spacecraft, and orbits
•   Putting it together : hunting for black holes part II
•   The future : can space missions get cheaper?

 

Week-4 - Detectors : Catching the light from the stars

•   Example story : galaxies from the dawn of time
•   The technology : CCDs and infra-red arrays
•   Putting it together : galaxies from the dawn of time part II
•   Is there another revolution in detector technology?

 

Week-5 - Computers : Crunching the data

•   Example story : killer rocks
•   The technology : computers, databases and the internet
•   Putting it together : killer rocks part II
•   The future : hitting the buffers?

 

Week-6 - Spectrographs : Taking the fingerprints of the stars

•   Example story : the accelerating universe and dark energy
•   The technology : how spectrographs work
•   Putting it together : dark energy part II
•   The perfect spectrograph?

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