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The aim of this module is to introduce students to a range of topics in modern astronomy, as well as astronomical telescopes, instrumentation & techniques.
Astronomy: Celestial coordinates & time, the ISM, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, binary systems, exoplanets, gamma-ray bursts, the cosmological distance ladder, large-scale structure, introduction to special relativity.
Astronomical instrumentation: Telescopes, resolution, aberrations, atmospheric seeing, Schmidt telescope, active optics, adaptive optics, optical detectors; Radio telescopes, interferometry; X-ray telescopes, other wavebands.
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