Cosimo Bambi Gravity Group
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Board Bulletin
Spectral Analysis Summer School 2016
Cluster account: summer@10.92.2.229 portal: -122
Lecture 0 (Jun 29, 2016)
- Basic Unix Commands
- Basic Xspec Commands
- Lamp-post Geometry
HW: Assignment 1 (for astro) Link
Lecture 1 (Jul 1, 2016) note1.txt
- Relativistic Effects, Relativistic Broad Line and RELLINE
- Lamp-post Geometry Review
- Walk Through Xspec (jj_test_ass1.fak)
HW: Analyze jj_test_ass2.fak
- The commands you need are all in either assignment 2 or Xspec manual, which you may find here Link
- Please save your work by doing “save all your_name.xcm” and copy and paste this log file to /home/summer/main .
Astronomy mini-School 2016
Instructor: Andrea Marinucci (Rome 3)
Location: Physics Building 恒隆物理楼
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Q&A board is available now. (Jun 10, 2016)
To be confirmed on Jun 21. (Jun 8, 2016)
mini-School
Syllabus
June 13 (Monday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216) lect1.pdf
- General introduction on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
- Definition and classification: Spectral Energy Distribution (SED), Unification Model
- AGN observations in the X-rays: variability, emission models
June 14 (Tuesday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216) lect2.pdf
- X-ray telescopes and detectors
- Wolter optics, Charged-coupled device (CCD) detectors and dispersion gratings
- Efficiency, sensitivity, spectral and angular resolution
- XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku and NuSTAR
June 15 (Wednesday), 16:30-18:00 (Room 403)lec3.pdf
- CCD spectral analysis: background, S/N ratio, goodness-of-fit tests
- Calibration uncertainties
- Introduction on Xspec
- Basic spectral models
References Fabian+2009: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2119.pdf
Fabian+2010: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-010-9699-y
Reynolds 2013: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.3260v2.pdf
June 16 (Thursday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 403)
- Data reduction: on-line archives, SAS and CIAO software
- XMM data-reduction: SAS usage, RGS and EPIC-pn/MOS xmm_data_reduction.txt
- Specgroup SAStool
June 17 (Friday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216) lect5.pdf
- XMM-Newton light curve
- NuSTAR data analysis
- XSELECT event filter
- Chandra data reduction: CIAO usage, ACIS-S for imaging
- Chandra ACIS-S Subpixel Event Repositioning (SER)
- Grppha ftool
June 20 (Monday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216) basic_spectral_fitting.txt basic_spectral_fitting_2.txt
- Xspec: fitting a simple spectrum and retrieving best-fit parameters with error bars
- IPL: plotting results
June 21 (Tuesday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216)
To be confirmed
June 22 (Wednesday), 16:30-18:00 (Room 216) spectral_fitting_relxill.txt
- Relativistic reflection models in Xspec: KYreflionx, relxill, relxill_LP
- Working the parameters of a super-massive black hole (when possible)
June 23 (Thursday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216) fakeit_commands.txt
- Xspec: simulating an observation (fakeit)
- How to write a (successful) proposal
June 24 (Friday), 15:30-17:30 (Room 216)
- General review and open questions
Pre-up
For the lectures, you need to bring your laptop with you and have already installed Xspec and DS9. Please do it as soon as possible, because the download and the installation may take time.
* For Xspec, you may download heasoft here: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html
- Step 1: select “Source code” and then your favorite platform.
- Step 2: select “all”. Click “Submit”.
* For DS9, you can download the software from this link: http://ds9.si.edu/site/Download.html
(For Ubuntu users, you may find DS9 in Ubuntu Application Store.)
* SAS (software for data reduction of XMM-Newton observations) and Ciao (for Chandra) may also be necessary.
(Ubuntu users (Ubuntu14.0) or Mac users may contact with current group member to retrieve already available installation packages.)
* Interested students, who intend to join our gravity group, may have access to our computer cluster by sharing the same group account and may not have to download packages/softwares mentioned above. However we do not guarantee perfect Internet connection to our cluster during the lectures. An ideal connection to the cluster is through Ethernet inside student residence.
References, Contacts and Registration
References
- AGN Physics Reviews:
* Netzer et al., 2015 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00811v1.pdf (in particolare la parte sui raggi X) * https://www.astro.umd.edu/~richard/ASTRO421/Netzer_AGN.pdf
- X-ray satellites:
* XMM-newton - ftp://heasarc.nasa.gov/xmm/doc/XMM_UHB.pdf (in particolare la parte sull'EPIC-pn)
- Spectral fitting:
* Xspec - http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/manual/XspecSpectralFitting.html
- Relativistic reflection models:
* relxill - http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~dauser/research/relxill/index.html
Target Student and Registration
- X-ray astronomy beginners. No specific astronomy background required.
- To register
* First, please click here.register
* Second, please email either Jiachen or Prof Bambi through emails for further confirmation. See contacts below.
Contacts
- Jiachen Jiang Email: jcjiang12@fudan.edu.cn
- Cosimo Bambi Email: bambi@fudan.edu.cn
Tips from Jiachen
Jiachen Here are some tips, useful online resources or additional materials for X-ray astronomy beginners, especially sophomore and junior undergraduate students.
For further information, please click here. tips
PHYS130104/630051 Introduction to Astrophysics (Instructor: Cosimo Bambi)
Final examination
Time: June 2, 2016 15:25–17:05
Location: 3205
Schedule Changed. No oral test but PAPER TEST now (like your mid-term).
Please come on time. Otherwise you wouldn't have enough time to finish before the end of the test.
Course syllabus (tbf)
| lecture 1 | Introduction to basic concepts |
| lecture 2 | Nuclear fusion inside stars and stellar evolution |
| lecture 3 | Introduction to black holes |
| lecture 4 | Black hole binaries |
| lecture 5 | Measurement of the spin of black holes |
| lecture 6 | Gravitational waves |
| lecture 7 | [Yu Wang] |
| lecture 8 | mid-term test |
| lecture 9 | [Shangyu Sun] |
| lecture 10 | Neutrinos in astrophysics |
| lecture 11 | Cosmology |
| lecture 12 | [Jiachen Jiang] introduction_to_astrophysics.pdf |
| lecture 13 | Cosmic rays |
Lectures given by instructors other than Prof Bambi will not be covered in the final examination.
Q&A
Prof Bambi and mini J. are both available through email. Just feel free to email either of us when you meet any problem.
* Prof Cosimo Bambi bambi@fudan.edu.cn
* Jiachen Jiang jcjiang12@fudan.edu.cn
Others The oral test will be entirely in English.
Mid term test Questions: 1) What are the apparent magnitude and the absolute magnitude of a star? 2) What can you say about the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram? 3) What is the Eddington Luminosity? 4) Describe the typical outburst of a black hole in an X-ray binary. 5) Describe one or more techniques to measure the spin of a black hole. 6) What can you say about gravitational waves?
**Upcoming** Visit of Dr Matteo Guainazzi
Dr Matteo Guainazzi (mguainaz@astro.isas.jaxa.jp) is visiting us from May 30(Mon) to June 3(Fri).
| No | Date | Start Time | End Time | Name | Subject | Location | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | Feb 31,2022(Thu) | 30:00am | 31:00am | Bitty Boopy Betty | Cyg X-1 | SUB | Chat |
| —— | |||||||
| 1 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 9:00am | 11:00am | Shangyu & his group | NGC 2210 & 5506 | East tower 2314 | Blackboard needed |
| 2 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 11:00am | 13:00pm | Cosimo & Jiachen | — | Lunch & Meeting | — |
| 3 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 13:15pm | 15:00pm | Group meeting | Overview of pulsar timing and application | Physics Building room 216 | — |
| 4 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 15:00pm | 17:00pm | Jiachen | 3C 273 | Stars' Coffee Shop | — |
| 5 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 17:00am | 18:00pm | Free hours  & dinner with Matteo | — | Student canteen | — |
| 6 | May 31,2016(Tue) | 18:00pm | — | Free hours  | — | — | — |
| —— | |||||||
| 7 | Jun 1,2016(Wed) | 9:00am | 11:00am | Shangyu & his group | NGC 2210 & 5506 | East tower 2314 | Blackboard needed |
| 8 | Jun 1,2016(Wed) | 11:00am | 13:00pm | Cosimo | — | — | — |
| 9 | Jun 1,2016(Wed) | 13:00pm | — | Yu & Masoumeh | MCG-5-23-16 | East tower 2314 | — |
| 10 | Jun 1, 2016(Wed) | 18:00pm | — | Free hours | — | — | — |
| —— | |||||||
| 11 | Jun 2,2016(Thu) | 9:00am | 10:30am | Shangyu & his group(Qingling) | NGC 2210 & 5506 | East tower 2314 | Blackboard needed |
| 12 | Jun 2,2016(Thu) | 10:30am | 13:30pm | Cosimo & Jiachen | — | East tower 2315 | Blackboard needed |
| 13 | Jun 2,2016(Thu) | 13:30am | 14:30pm | Yu & Masoumeh | MCG-5-23-16 | Stars' Coffee Shop | — |
| 14 | Jun 2,2016(Thu) | 14:30pm | 16:30pm | Free hours | — | Stars' Coffee Shop | — |
Everyone is free to come during free hours. Especially, new students who have specific related physics questions are welcome to come. Anyone however with romantic relationship issue is welcome to come to speak with Jiachen instead.
Lunch/Dinner with Matteo will be in the student canteen near the twin towers. We will always gather at Cosimo's office and then go together.
Free hours in the evening are flexible.
Edited by Jiachen Jiang (mini J.)
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