TO READ
1. Krane
2. Thermal Physics
3. Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
4. Data Reduction
5. XSPEC chapters
Reading Process: Keep a journal, take notes, make a sort of study guide as I go along.
Make note cards as of information that seems particularly relevant to internship work
CONCEPTS TO RESEARCH
I. Programming
1. XSPEC
a. how specifically do response files influence the readout from the telescope?
1. Astro-Py
2. Python
a. Sys module
II. Quantum Mechanics
1. Moseley's Work
2. K, L, M Shells in electrons
3. Electron transitions (K-alpha, beta, etc.)
4. J-vector, quantum numbers
5. spin, implications to atomic energy levels
6. bremstrahlung
7. black body radiation
III. Astrophysics, X-Ray Physics
1. Energizing of X-Rays in the black holes of coronas
2. Width of typical x-ray lines in different settings
IV. Statistics
1. Correlation
2. Standard Deviation
3. Poisson Distributions
4. Gaussian Distributions
