Lecture series on "Techniques of Radio Astronomy and GMRT"
Here we are presenting the documents/presentations (pdf's/ppt's) for the lecture series which was conducted in GMRT in February - May 2016, on topic "Techniques of Radio Astronomy and GMRT", organised by Dr Shubhendu Joardar and Kaushal Buch.
The lecture series has theory lectures, talks on various GMRT sub-systems. It was also aimed to provide the theoretical concepts of techniques of radio astronomy and practical aspects and working of GMRT.
| Sr. No. | Lecture Topic | Speaker |
| 1. | Orientation and Introduction to GMRT | Kaushal Buch |
| 2. | Introduction to Radio Astronomy | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 3. | Basics of Antennas | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 4. | Basics of Radio Telescopes | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 5. | Polarimetry | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 6. | Design concepts of Single Dish Radio Telescopes | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 7. | Design concepts of Radio Interferometers using Arrays | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 8. | Array Mode of Radio Telescope | Kaushal Buch |
| 9. | Receiving systems for Radio Telescope | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 10. | GMRT Frontend system (Presentation is not available) | Suresh Kumar - GC (frontend) |
| 11. | Interferometer, Aperture Synthesis and Radio mapping | Divya Oberoi |
| 12. | Interferometer, data calibration and imaging techniques | Dharam Vir Lal |
| 13. | GMRT Backend system | Ajith Kumar - GC (Backend) |
| 14. | Propagation effects in GMRT | Shubhendu Joardar |
| 15. | GMRT Servo system | Suresh Sabhapathy - GC (servo) |
| 16. | GMRT Telemetry system and Operations | S Nayak - GC (telemetry), Ishwar Chandra C H |
| 17. | Control Room Activities | Jayprakash Kamble |