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CONSTELLATION Training School

(Sub)millimeter Observing Techniques in the Herschel Era

Saclay (Orme des Merisiers), May 19-21, 2010

A three day CONSTELLATION training school, with a day of lectures followed by two days of small, group based tutorials, with participants anticipated to take part in all five tutorials on a rotation basis over the 2 days given.

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Herschel image of Aquila/Serpens-South

Image Credit: ESA, the SPIRE & PACS consortia, and the Gould’s Belt Key Programme Consortium Click here (http://oshi.esa.int/#list=/images.html?q=latest;detail=image.html?id=17) or here (http://www.herschel.fr/cea/gouldbelt/en/)

Programme

Organizers: Philippe André (pandre at cea.fr) and Vera Könyves (vera.konyves at cea.fr)

Wednesday, May 19th.

Lecture session.

Topic Speaker Institution
Overall introduction (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/e/e5/Ph_andre_constellation_submm_school_intro.pdf) SCUBA2 introduction (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/6/6e/Dnutter_scuba2.pdf) Philippe André/Dave Nutter Saclay/Cardiff
Planning observations photometric (SPIRE/PACS) and spectroscopic (HIFI) observations with Herschel. Introduction to HSPOT (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/0/09/Sbontemps_submm-school-may10.pdf) Sylvain Bontemps Bordeaux/Saclay
Making maps from Herschel data. Introduction to HIPE (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/9/9a/Msauvage_introduction_to_hipe.pdf) Marc Sauvage Saclay
Introduction to source extraction. Summary of main clump-finding algorithms (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/0/01/Men%5C%27shcikov.pdf) Alexander Men'shchikov Saclay
Introduction to mm/submm interferometric observations (PdB/NOEMA + ALMA) (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/8/86/Ph_salome_interfero.pdf) Philippe Salomé IRAM/Paris Obs


Thursday, May 20th.

Tutorials/Hands-on sessions.

Tutorial Topic Supervisor
Planning Herschel observations with HSPOT Sylvain Bontemps
Producing SPIRE images in HIPE Nicola Schneider/Pasquale Panuzzo
Producing PACS images in HIPE (http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/constellation/PacsDemoScripts.tar.gz) (link downloads files) Marc Sauvage/Vera Konyves/Martin Hennemann


Friday, May 21st.

Continuation of hands-on sessions.

Tutorial Topic Supervisor
Finding sources in Herschel maps Sasha Men'shchikov/Pierre Didelon
Planning and reducing IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer observations Philippe Salomé

Tutorials/Hands-on Sessions ReadMe

Please see Readme file (http://www.constellation-rtn.eu/wiki/uploads/e/ed/ReadMe_mmSchool_handsOnMaterial-1.pdf)

Photos from the Training School

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