Sumários

Introduction to Space Systems Engineering (I)

2 Novembro 2021, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: Introduction
- Systemic vision of the space mission
- Space Segment: "Service modules" and "payloads"
- Launchers,
- Ground Segment
- Weight and costs


Instruments

28 Outubro 2021, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

::Instruments
- Photometers and cameras
- Spectrographs
- Polarimeters
- Interferometers

:Beyond basic CCD use
- Mosaics
- "Binning". Reasons, advantages and disadvantages. Differences in load transfer / Acquisition / reading

Further reading: Chap 5 of McLean

CCD image processing (Part IV)

26 Outubro 2021, 09:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: Image processing:
- Combination of flat field images for each band.
- Examination of the combined images.
- Identification of artifacts in the combined flats.
- Application of flat-field corrections.
- Examination of the final images.


CMOS detector arrays

26 Outubro 2021, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

- CMOS detector definition

- CMOS detector principles of operation
- Performance of modern CMOS detectors
- Examples of CMOS detectors

Telescopes, instruments and astronomical observatories (part III)

21 Outubro 2021, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

- Presentation of some of the best observatories in the world: Paranal, Mauna Kea, La Palma
- The great telescopes of the next decade: the Extremely Large Telescopes, E-ELT, TMT and GMT
- Astronomical observations in space. Reasons and presentation of recent ESA missions.

- Radio telescopes (single dish and interferometry)
- High energy observations: X-rays and gamma rays