Recent Talks

Lecture 3: Types of signals
-- Normalization
- Spectrograms
- Welch
- Time-frequency
- Rebinning
- Dead-time
- Fitting PDS

Lecture 3:  Models for the variable multi-wavelength emission of black hole
binaries: accretion flow
- The structure of inner accretion flow inferred from X-ray spectral modelling
- The most popular model for the X-ray fast variability and QPOs
- Fast optical variability from the accretion flow:
   * disk reprocessing
   * synchrotron emission from non-thermal particles in the hot corona
- Optical QPOs  from the accretion flow

Lecture 2: Poissonian
- Normalization
- Spectrograms
- Welch
- Time-frequency
- Rebinning
- Dead-time
- Fitting PDS

Lecture 2:
- Oscillations, pulsations and seismology
- Transits and Eclipses

Lecture 1: Fourier theory
- Continuous and discrete Fourier Transform
- Power spectra
- Window carpentry
- FFT

Lecture 2: HTRA: Current technologies
- X-ray: RXTE to ASTROSAT, Chandra, XMM, NuSTAR
- optical/IR: EMCCDs, APDs, MCP-based systems
- UV: HST, Galex

Lecture 2: Radiation processes:
- Cyclo-synchrotron
- Curvature radiation
- Compton
- Bremstrahlung
- Electron/positron pair production and annihilation

Lecture 2: ULTRASPEC
- An introduction to EMCCDs
- Instrumentation for high-speed spectroscopy: ULTRASPEC on the ESO 3.6m and NTT
- Instrumentation for high-speed photometry II: ULTRASPEC on the TNT

Lecture 1:
- Timescales across the HR diagram
- Key (optical) properties of compact objects
- Compact binary systems & accretion variability

Lecture 1: ULTRACAM
- High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) - what is it and why study it?
- The detection of light - an introduction to CCDs
- Instrumentation for high-speed photometry I: ULTRACAM
- ULTRACAM: science highlights