Skills you'll gain

There are 6 modules in this course

Each week we will explore a different facet of x-ray astronomy. Beginning with an introduction to the nature of image formation, we then move on to examples of how our imaging program, DS9, can aid our understanding of real satellite data. You will using the actual data that scientists use when doing their work. Nothing is "canned". You will be able to appreciate the excitement that astronomers felt when they made their important discoveries concerning periodic binary x-ray sources, supernovae and their remnants, and extragalactic sources that have shaped our understanding of cosmology.

Basic Astronomical Data and a DS9 Smorgasbord

Stellar Evolution and White Dwarfs

Orbits, Gravity, and Clocks in the Sky

Supernovae, Our Cosmic Recycling Centers

To the Ends of the Universe; Quasars, 3C273, and beyond

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