LBNL Supernova Photometry group

 v1.0 Feb 15, 2004

Lecture1- Feb 9 Photometry signal chain  
* Source
* Celestial background
* Atmosphere
* Telescope
* Filter
* Detector
* DAQ electronics and data format

Lecture2 - Feb 20 Rudimentary CCD processing  
* Overscan and bias subtraction
* Dark subtraction
* Flat-fielding
* Spatial distortion
* Cosmic-rays
* Fringe Correction

Lecture3 Feb 23 - Rudimentary aperture photometry & SN-specific techniques
(audio-MP3)
* Aperture photometry
* Aperture correction
* Background measurement
* Reference images
* Image registration
* Differential photometry
* PSF matching

Lecture4 -Mar 1- Rudimentary photometry calibration
* Stability assumptions
* Calibration equation
* Motivation and measuremment of extinction
* Motivation and measurement of color term
* Spring 1999 photometry calibration

Lecture5 Apr 26 -Photometry Calibration Systems and Sources(Lee)
* System definitions
(AB/Thuan-Gunn-Wade/SDSS/Johnson/Kron-Cousins/Bessell/Landolt/Persson/CIT)
* Relative calibration methods & status
* Absolute calibration methods & status (Hayes & Latham)
* Current system calibrations
* Ground compared to Space
* Standard references/experts

Lecture6   Mar 15 - The SCP image database (Conley)  
* Basic structure of image database
* Conventions
* Preliminaries for new instrument/detector
* Loading images
* Astrometric solutions
* Spatial transformations
(demo)

Off Mar 22 - Spring Break (working group can still meet)
 

Lecture7 - Mar 29 -Noise and Signal-to-Noise (Saul?)
* Nature of Poisson statistics
* Applicability to modern CCD data
* Noise terms (object/sky/detector/scintillation)
* Full S/N equation
* Application to SN observations
* Special limiting cases
* Photon transfer curve
 

Lecture8 -May 3- PSF photometry (Fadeyev)  
* Motivation
* Standard methods and packages
+ DAOPHOT
+ DOPHOT
* Modifications for SN work
+ Rob/Regnualt technique
+ Fabbro technique
 

Lecture9 -Details of CCD detector behavior (Roe/Bebek?)
Apr 12
 

Lecture 10 -Details of atmospheric extinction and emission
Apr 19
* Extinction components
* Wavelength, altitude and temporal behavior of absorption
* Emission components
* Wavelength, altitude and temporal behavior of emission
 

Lecture 11 -Details of PSF's and Atmospheric Seeing
Apr 26
* Diffraction effects
* Scattering effects
* Optical aberrations
* Atmospheric refraction
* Atmospheric turbulence theory
* Atmospheric turbulence approximated

Lecture 12 -HST photometry
May3
 
 
 

Lecture 13 -SN lightcurve basics
May 10
 

Off May 16 - Wide-field Imaging in Space Conference

Lectures after this are TBD