SUBJECT
Title
Advanced Astronomical Informaion Technology 1-2
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
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 ()
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