A project-based course covering the basics of modern scientific data acquisition, mining and analysis, including observational astronomy techniques. Students will complete a series of projects in data analysis using experimental data covering topics such as the fundamentals of image reduction and analysis, time-series analysis, photometry and spectroscopy.
A project-based course covering the basics of modern scientific data acquisition, mining and analysis, including observational astronomy techniques. Students will complete a series of projects in data analysis using experimental data covering topics such as the fundamentals of image reduction and analysis, time-series analysis, photometry and spectroscopy.