CURSO: LABORATORIOS DE INSTRUMENTACIÓN ASTRONÓMICA
TRADUCCION: LABORATORY OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION
SIGLA: IEE3873
CRÉDITOS: 10
MODULOS: 02
CARÁCTER: OPTATIVO
TIPO: CÁTEDRA
CALIFICACIÓN: ESTÁNDAR
PALABRAS CLAVE: LABORATORIO, INSTRUMENTACIÓN, OPTICA, ASTRONOMÍA
NIVEL FORMATIVO: MAGISTER


I. DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO

The course presents from the practical point of view the main concepts in optics and detection of light, such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference of light. 


II. OBJETIVOS

The laboratory of Astronomical Instrumentation /Optical Instrumentation aims to the understanding of the propagation of light through practical experiences and to the comprehension of the basics of experimental science. The experiments 
developed by the students are mostly related to practical optics and observational astronomy, they are carried out in the laboratory and at the telescope. The students are expected to work in small groups, collaborate among themselves 
and to be relatively autonomous, for each experiment performed they write a report in English.


III. CONTENIDOS

1. Experiment 1: Refracting telescope
1.1 Mount and chracterize a refracting telescope


2. Experiment 2: Characterization of a CCD detector
2.1 Arrangement of the experimental set-up
2.2 Measurement of read-out noise, transfer curve, bias, dark, bad pixels


3. Experiment 3: Computer analysis and desing of optical systems
3.1 Ray Tracing codes
3.2 Applications to simple optical systems and classical telescope


4. Experiment 4: Spectroscopy I
4.1 Assembling of a low resolution spectrograph for astronomical use
4.2 Characterization of the spectrograph in the lab.


5. Experiment 5: Spectroscopy II
5.1 Contrucción of high resolution spectrometers in the lab
5.2 Characterization of the spectrograph in the lab


6. Experiment 6: Optical testing
6.1 Foucault test
6.2 Ronchi Test
6.3 Newton interferometeer


7. Experiment 7: Interferometry
7.1 Assembling of a michelson Interferometer
7.2 Assembling of a Shack Interferometer


8. Experiment 8: Measurement of the refraction index
8.1 Measurement of the refraction index of a material with a spectrogoniometer using the method of the prism in mínimum deviation


9. Experiment 9: Adaptive Optics
9.1 Wavefront sensors and turbulence estimation
9.2 Seeing, diffraction limit and strehl ratio
9.3 Representation of aberration in Zernike modes
9.4 Deformable mirrors and turbulence correction
9.5 Single Conjugate Correction


10. Experiment 10: Telescope Obserbations
10.1 Acquisition of color images with a CCD camera
10.2 Characterization of the spectrograph of the experiment 4


IV. METODOLOGY
The course is based on activities carried in the Lab by the 
students and a number of lectures given by the teacher which focus on specific subjects necessary to the execution of the experiments and measurements, among them particular importance is given to the analysis and propagation of experimental errors.


V. EVALUACIÓN

The evaluation is base don the reports written during the course (90%) and asistance (10%).


VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Básica
J. R. Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements, University Science Books, 1996
I.S.McLean, Electronic Imaging in Astronomy, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008
D.J.Schroeder, Astronomical Optics, Academic Press, San Diego CA, 2000
D. Malacara, Optical Shop Testing, Wiley Interscience

Recomendada
P. R. Bevington, D. K. Robinson, Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Science, Mc Graw-Hill 2002
P.Y.Bely (ed.), The Design and Construction of Large Optical Telescopes, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003
E. Hecht, Optics, Addison Wesley
W.J.Smith, Modern Optical Engineering, McGraw-Hill/SPIE Press, New York, 2008
J.W.Hardy, Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes, Oxford University Press New York, 1998
B.K. Johnson, Optics and Optical Instruments, Dover 1960


PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
ESCUELA DE INGENIERÍA / ACTUALIZADO ABRIL 2021