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− | Questions in this category have been asked by PJ,MT | + | Questions in this category have been asked by |
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− | * What do you know about WMAP? | + | *What do you know about WMAP? |
− | * What spacecraft have gone up recently? | + | *What spacecraft have gone up recently? |
− | * What's the latest, coolest instrumentation? | + | *What's the latest, coolest instrumentation? |
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− | * what do you know about HST?
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− | * why do we build large telescopes on the ground, if HST has a much better resolution with just 2.3m?
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− | * If we observed a neutron star in LMC from a X-ray telescope, are we able to use a optical telescope to find out if it has a optical companion?
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− | ** How many stars in LMC?
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− | ** What's the angular resolution for a X-ray telescope (some early X-ray telescope before Chandra)?
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− | ** What's the angular resolution for a typical optical telescope?
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− | ** In the field we observed the neutron star, how many stars we would observed in optical?
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− | * What's the typical spectral resolution for a optical telescope?
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− | * What distances can we get to using parallax measurements?
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− | * What is the photometric precision that can be achieved from the ground? What limits the attainable photometric precision?
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− | * At optical wavelengths, what's the typical limit to the effective telescope size set by atmospheric seeing? (RS)
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− | * What is the seeing at Magellan on a good night? (RS)
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− | * What is the difference between atmospheric effects in optical and radio astronomy? (RS)
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− | * How was the frequency band of MWA chosen? (I'm in MWA; other experimentalists could get an analogous question). (RS)
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− | * What are the following and to what sorts (read: wavelengths) of astronomers care about them? (RS)
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− | ** Adaptive Optics
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− | *** How does complexity of the AO system scale with aperture size?
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− | *** What is the characteristic size of turbulent cells?
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− | ** Closure phase
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− | *** What are measurements int he UV plane called?
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− | ** Bolometer
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− | ** CCD
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− | *** How do X-ray and optical astronomers use CCDs differently?
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− | ** Grazing incidence optics?
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− | ** Downmixing
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