Astrophysical Data Analysis

Lecture log

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Stefano Carniani, Simona Gallerani

Lecture

  • 20 Jan 2026 (2h 00m)

    STEFANO Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to ground- and space-based telescopes; angular resolution; diffraction- and seeing-limited images; detectors and pillars of data reduction

  • 22 Jan 2026 (2h 00m)

    STEFANO Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Big Data in Astrophysics; definition of intrinsic and observed flux density, electromagnetic spectrum, and bolometric luminosity; presenation of FITS (flexible Image Transport System) files

  • 27 Jan 2026 (2h 00m)

    STEFANO Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Astronomical filters and transmission curves; Lyman break technique; analysis of data acquired with space-based telescopes

  • 29 Jan 2026 (2h 00m)

    STEFANO Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Application to Lyman Break Technique to HST and JWST data, definition of apparent and absolute magnitude

  • 03 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)

    STEFANO Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Luminosity function, spectroscopy in astrophysics, spectrograph, grating and prism properties