file: schedule.txt = NAOJ course 2010
init: Nov 13 2010 
site: http://www.astro.uu.nl/~rutten/rrlnk/naojcourse   (hidden)


    NAOJ Lecture Course "Radiative Transfer in the Solar Atmosphere"
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Teachers:

  Prof. Robert J. Rutten 
     <R.J.Rutten@uu.nl>
     http://www.astro.uu.nl/~rutten/

  Dr. Alfred de Wijn (exercises SSC and image+Fourier processing)    
     <dwijn@ucar.edu>
     http://www.iluvatar.org/~dwijn/  

Materials: http://www.astro.uu.nl/~rutten/rrlnk/naojcourse 

Dates: November 15-19 2010

Place: meeting room in COSMOS Kaikan, NAOJ

Morning lecture hours:
  hour 1: 09:00-10:00
  hour 2: 10:10-11:00 
  hour 3: 11:10-12:15

Afternoon excercise hours:
  13:30-17:00 

Monday November 15: basic stellar spectrum formation
  welcome
  participant introductions
  hour 1: introduction
  hour 2: solar continuum and Fraunhofer lines  
  hour 3: examples: coronal white light, forbidden lines, EUV bright/dark
  afternoon: scissor exercise SSA1 = Cannon, IDL exercise SSA2 = Payne
  
Tuesday November 16: basic quantities, Eddington-Barbier approximation
  hour 1: radiation quantities, radiative transfer (RT) equation 
  hour 2: thin-layer solution, plane-parallel Eddington-Barbier cartoons
  hour 3: examples: magnetic bright points in G band, Halpha, MnI lines
  afternoon: IDL exercise SSA3 = curve of growth, SSB1 = FALC model 
  15:30-17:00 Seminar Haosheng Lin (Hawaii): Visual coronal line polarization

Wednesday November 17: plane-parallel RT
  hour 1-3: qualitative solar spectrum formation, extinction coefficient,
    line broadening, Einstein coefficients and relations, PRD versus CRD, 
    line source function, formal temperatures, departure coefficients, 
    lasering, coupled population and RT equations
  examples: solar spectrum plots, PRD in MgII hk, MgI 12 micron emission lines
  afternoon: IDL exercises SSB2 = H-minus, SSB3 = NaD in LTE    
  
Thursday November 18: plane-parallel 2-level RT with scattering
  hour 1: formal equations, Lambda operator, approximations, Krijger plots
  hour 2: Eddington-approximation scattering, sqrt(eps) law, Avrett plots
  hour 3: examples: VAL3C continua, VAL3C energy budgets
  afternoon: IDL exercises SSC = numerical methods (Alfred de Wijn)
             alternative: IDL image+Fourier processing (Alfred de Wijn)

Friday November 19: chromospheric line formation
  hour 1: course summary, VAL3C chromospheric line formation
  hour 2: clapotisphere naming and nature; chromosphere naming and nature
  hour 3: chromosphere diagnostics
  afternoon: IDL exercises SSC = numerical methods (Alfred de Wijn)
             alternative: IDL image+Fourier processing (Alfred de Wijn)

participants
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   Anan, Tetsu
   Kato, Yoshiaki
   Fukue, Jun
   Ito, Hiroko
   Iida, Yusuke
   Oi, Akihito
   Kamiya, Yasuomi
   Hagino, Masaoki
   Katsukawa, Yukio
   Shimizu, Toshifumi
   Tsuneta, Saku
   Suematsu, Yoshinori
   Lin, Haosheng
   Ishikawa, Ryohko
   Ueda, Kohei
   Xu, Haiqing