Syllabus
A lecture targeted to students with the interest to solar research and advanced methods of spectroscopy and data processing. According to the current interest of the enrolled students a selection of topics from the following will be taught:
Basics of spectroscopy. Inversions of spectral lines.
Issues with solar observations. Planning of observations. Seeing, optical aberations, stray-light and their corrections. Active and adaptive optics, image reconstructions: Specle interferometry, phase diversity.
Fourier transform in spectroscopy and image processing. Image segmentation. Noise and its suppression.
Spectral gratings. Construction of solar telescopes, spectrographs. Calculation of the grating incident angle. Reduction of 2D spectra.
Filters and monochromators.
Measurements of velocity and magnetic fields. Spectropolarimetry.
Spectroscopy in UV and X-rays.
Interferometry.
Time-distance helioseismology in details.
And possibly others according to the actual needs.
Annotation
A lecture targeted to students with the interest to solar research and advanced methods of spectroscopy and data processing. According to the current interest of the enrolled students a selection of topics will be taught including the correction of observations for seeing, optical aberations and stray-light effects, image processing, noise suppression, construction of solar instruments, spectropolarimetry, emission-lines diagnostics, and others.