AGA0414 - Métodos Observacionais em Astrofísica I (2020)

Why do we do astronomy from space? How do we do it? What are the important space missions?

Here we try to give an introduction to space-based astronomy.

Guess what? At the end of the day, it's photometry and spectroscopy.

In this class, we will go through near infrared astronomy: what is near infrared, why it is used and how are observations performed.

In this lecture, we cover the topic of high angular resolution techniques. In particular, lucky imaging and adaptive optics.

Here goes a rough introduction to polarimetry, its physics, its use and how to measure it.

I add some useful references in this link .