READING / HOMEWORK PROBLEMS -- for 2008. 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, 22 JAN

here! You should review all LATEX/UNIX/EMACS documents in this website!
here! You should review the two IDL primers in this website!
moonproblem.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! Due Friday, 01 Feb

MON, 28 JAN

here! You should print out handouts 2, 3, 4, 5. Bring them to class; we will discuss them over the next classes.

MON, 04 FEB

projections_handout.ps LOOK AT THIS HANDDOUT ON PROJECTIONS...COORDINATE PROJECTIONS AND FITS FILE ASTROMETRY
irproj.ps DO THIS PROBLEM, DUE FRIDAY, 15 FEB!!

Mon, 11 Feb

DO READING on monovariate PDFs: TRUMPLER/WEAVER 1.11-1.15 inclusive. DO READING on using transformaations to generate random numbers of a desired functional form: Cowan 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Mon, 11 Feb

DO READING on famous/important PDFs: COWAN chapter 2. (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7)

WED, 13 Feb

sintheta_problem.ps DO THESE PROBLEMS!! DUE Friday, FEBRUARY 22!! DO READING : Numerical Recipes (NR) on the chi-square test and the Kolmogoroff-Smirnoff test.

WED, 27 Feb

poissondiff_problem.ps DO THESE PROBLEMS!! DUE Friday, March 7!! DO READING: BIVARIATE PDFS AND THEIR TRANSORMATIONS: TRUMPLER AND WEAVER, sections 1.31, 1.33, 1.34; COWAN, section 3.2.

WED, 27 Feb

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, Mar 3

problem4_ratio.ps Corellated brightness measurements of two stars: due FRIDAY, MARCH 14!!.
DO READING: Error propagation, COWAN SECTION 1.6. Diagonalizing the covariance matrix, COWAN SECTION 1.7.

WED, 12 MAR

lsfit_2007.ps We're gradually working our way through this...
lsq_2007.ps DO THIS FOUR-PART PROBLEM!! DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 21!!
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MON, 31 MAR

lsfit_2007.ps Keep truckin' away on this handout! .
p13_2008.ps DO THIS PROBLEM!! will be DUE FRIDAY, APR 11!!

MON, 14 APR

p20c.ps new homework, due Friday, MAY 2!!!!!
run5.dat Click here (while holding down 'Shift') to get the run5.dat file

FRI, 25 APR

gm_new.ps DO THIS AMAZING PROBLEM (the last) ON IRREGULAR SAMPLING, DUE Fri 9 MAY.
gm.sav YOU'LL NEEED THE DATA IN THIS IDL SAVE FILE FOR THE PROBLEM
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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.
gm.pdf YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ASSOCIATED PAPER (APJ ACCEPTED) and also THIS ONE Rossiter.ps

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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