READING / HOMEWORK PROBLEMS -- for 2007. DISREGARD ANYTHING AFTER DASHED LINEs -- IT'S FROM LAST YEAR!

The ps and TeX files can be found in ~heiles/courses and relevant subdirectories.


File Name
Description

WED, 17 JAN

unixprimer.ps BASIC UNIX TUTORIAL
idltut1.ps BASIC IDL TUTORIAL
idldatatypes.ps IDL TUTORIAL: IDL DATATYPES AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
moonproblem.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! Due Friday, 26 Jan

MON, 22 JAN

makeps.ps IDL TUTORIAL: MAKING, PRINTING, AND POWERPOINTING POSTSCRIPT FILES OF GRAPHS AND IMAGES

WED, 24 JAN

bididlm.ps BASIC IMAGE DISPLAY IN IDL
irproj.ps DO THIS PROBLEM, DUE FRIDAY, 2 FEB!!

MON, 29 JAN

dimensionalcolor.ps ONE, TWO, AND THREE DIMENSIONAL COLOR IMAGES
annotated_images.ps MAKING ANNOTATED IMAGES
projections_handout.ps COORDINATE PROJECTIONS AND FITS FILE ASTROMETRY

WED, 31 Jan

sintheta_problem.ps DO THESE PROBLEMS!! DUE Friday, FEBRUARY 16!!
DO READING: Monovariate pdfs: COWAN 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and/or Trumpler and Weaver 1.12, 1.13, 1.14

MON, 5 Feb

DO THIS READING: BIVARIATE PDFS AND THEIR TRANSORMATIONS: TRUMPLER AND WEAVER, sections 1.31, 1.33, 1.34; COWAN, section 3.2.

Wed, 7 Feb

DO READING important monovariate PDFs: Cowan chapter 2

Mon, 12 Feb

DO READING : Numerical Recipes (NR) on the chi-square test and the Kolmogoroff-Smirnoff test.

Wed, 14 Feb

problem4_ratio.ps Corellated brightness measurements of two stars: due FRIDAY, MARCH 2!!.
DO READING: THE GAUSSIAN PDF: COWAN SECTION 2.5. EXPECTATION VALUES, COVARIANCE: COWAN SECTION 1.5. DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS: COWAN SECTION 5.2. PROPAGATION OF ERROR: COWAN SECTION 1.6.

WED, 28 FEB

lsfit_2007.ps read sections 1,2,3,4,5,6 from lsfit handout.
problem3.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 9!!

WED, 14 MAR

lsfit_2007.ps We're gradually working our way through this...
lsq_2007.ps DO THIS FOUR-PART PROBLEM!! DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 23!!

WED, 21 MAR

rational.ps Due Fri Apr 6, 2007! (note: we'll do p13.ps, mentioned below, later).
lsfit_2007.ps Keep working your way through this!
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WED, 4 APR

lsfit_2007.ps read section 14 from this lsfit handout .
p13.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! will be DUE FRIDAY, APR 13!!

MON, 9 APR

lsfit_2007.ps read section 14 from this lsfit handout (Jefferys) .
lsfit_2007_jeff.ps This shorter handout is section 14 from lsfit_2007.ps (Jefferys)
jefferys_problem.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! will be DUE FRIDAY, APR 20!!

MON, 16 APR

fourierc.ps Take a look at this handout on Fourier transforms.

WED, 25 APR

p20b.ps !!!!! OPTIONAL !!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIMENT WITH CONVENTIONAL FFT, TRY THIS PROBLEM!! The 'First' part is easy and fun; note comments 1 and 2. If you want to do more, try the 'third' and 'fourth' parts.
run5.dat Click here (while holding down 'Shift') to get the run5.dat file

WED, 25 APR

gm.ps DO THIS AMAZING PROBLEM ON IRREGULAR SAMPLING, DUE Fri 4 MAY.
gm.pdf YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ASSOCIATED PAPER (APJ ACCEPTED) and also THIS ONE Rossiter.ps
gm.sav YOU'LL NEEED THE DATA IN THIS IDL SAVE FILE FOR THE PROBLEM

FRI, 27 APR

how_clean.ps This tells how to do 1d spectral clean--for your future reference.

FRI, 4 MAY

wavelet.ps **IN ADVANCE OF MONDAY'S CLASS**, read this WAVELETS, by Erik Rosolowsky.
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