Astro 330 Course Book

Astro 330 Course Book: Scientific Computing in Astrophysics

Course Overview

Class Overview & Syllabus

Lectures

1. Astronomical Imaging & Functional Programming
2. Object Oriented Programming
4. Sampling with MCMC
6. Pandas
7. Building Installable Packages
8. Interactivity in Python

Labs

Lab 1: Overview, Review, and Environments
Lab 2: Astronomical Imaging I
Lab 3: Building a Photometric Pipeline
Lab 4: Fitting a Model to Data
Lab 5: Stellar Spectroscopy + Fitting Models to Data
Lab 6: Pandas
Lab 7: Package Structure
Lab 8: Playing with Interactivity

Lab Solutions

Lab 1 Solutions
Lab 2 Solutions
Lab 3 Solutions
Lab 4: Solutions
Lab 5 Solutions
Lab 6: Solutions

Final Projects

Final Project Guidelines

Quick Tips

Timing your code
Meshgrid
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Data Access

Data Access

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