Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/astro
The home page of the journal 'Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics', published by the non-profit organisation Annual Reviews since 1963. Tables of contents are available, and abstracts to published papers are available from 1996 onwards. Access to full-text is available to subscribers or by online purchase of individual articles. The journal publishes a volume each year of review papers pertaining to the most recent research in the field. Links are available to search or browse through contents and abstracts, to view by most downloaded and most cited, and to view errata. Information for authors, details regarding the editors, and the facility to subscribe to the journal are also included.
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Astromaterials curation at NASA JSC
http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/
"The Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office is tasked to curate NASA's current and future collections of extraterrestrial samples." Details of this work and of the current collections are available on this website. The collections include: rocks and soils from the Moon; meteorites from Antarctica; stratospheric cosmic dust; Solar wind samples collected by the Genesis spacecraft; interstellar and cometary dust samples collected by the Stardust mission; and hardware which has been exposed to space. Comprehensive information is provided for each collection, including catalogues and datasets, and information on how to request samples.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
http://www.aanda.org/
Formerly published by Springer, the journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics" has been published by EDP Sciences since 2001. This website provides contents lists and abstracts, and subscription details. Access to full-text is restricted to subscribers. Students should check whether their university/academic institution is a subscriber.
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Astronomy and numerical software source codes
http://www.moshier.net/
This site has a selection of codes, most of which calculate ephemerides, orbits and related astronomical data from almanac tables. Also on the site are various C libraries for scientific computation, particularly implementations of long double floating point mathematics. The Cephes mathematics library functions in C are downloadable and links to resources in this area are provided. Also provided are a few engineering codes, including one to calculate radiated power from a Planck black body, and one to calculate thermodynamic properties of water.
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Astronomy Book and Software Reviews
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/AALibrary/reviews.html
Citations are given for reviews of books on subjects related to astronomy and astrophysics which have been published in various journals. Also included are brief book notices. The software reviews are more limited and cover professional level or important teaching software. 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Book and Software Reviews online' is updated quarterly. Users may either browse or search the listings. The service is maintained at the University of Toronto Astronomy and Astrophysics Library.
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Astroparticle Physics
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~stacee/astroparticleright.html
The Astroparticle Physics Group of the University of California LA (UCLA) conducts research into the interface between astronomy and physics. The group's website gives descriptions of the projects they are involved in (gamma rays, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and searching for dark matter). It also explains the physics involved in each experiment or project. There are links to presentations and publications from the University, to other collaborators on the projects, and related sites.
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Astrophysical calculator
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constants/calc.html
This page contains a scientific calculator, written in Javascript. It includes buttons for many constants in astrophysics, such as mass, radius, and temperature of the Sun; Stefan Boltzmann's constant; mass, radius, period etc of the planets; speed of light; and gravitational constant. CGS or SI units can also be chosen. The calculator is provided by Chris Dolan, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Astrophysical fluid dynamics
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gio10/afd.html
This Web page is maintained by Gordon Ogilvie of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Lecture notes are provided covering many topics in astrophysical fluid dynamics. Topics covered include magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) theory, the physics of blast waves and shocks, as well as astrophysical jets. The notes should be accessible to advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students and are provided in PDF format.
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Astrophysical Institute, Potsdam
http://www.aip.de/
This is the home page of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany. The page provides information about events at the institute, summer schools, etc. It contains information from research groups working in the following areas: magnetohydrodynamics, Solar physics, stellar physics, star formation, galaxies, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, etc. There is also information about the projects and missions in which the groups have participated (Large Binocular Telescope (LBT); acquisition, guiding, and wavefront (AGW) sensing units for the LBT; PEPSI/ICE; the STELLA telescope; and the Gregor telescope).
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Astrophysical Journal
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/apj
The "Astrophysical Journal", published by IOP Publishing for the American Astronomical Society, was created for purposes of covering current events in astronomy and astrophysics: discoveries, publishing new theories and technology advances. Its contents include quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, magnetic fields of stellar systems, interstellar matter, and spectroscopic explorations. The abstracts of the articles can be viewed freely, whilst the full-text is available in HTML or PDF files only for subscribers.Students should check whether their university/institution is a subscriber.
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Astrophysical Radiation Processes
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/~wilms/teach/radproc/
This website was prepared to accompany a course in astrophysical radiation processes by Jorn Wilms, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAAT) of the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tubingen. Lecture slides are provided in HTML, PDF and PostScript formats, covering: introductory material, radiation and radiative transfer, blackbody radiation, radiation from moving charges, Bremsstrahlung radiation, Synchrotron radiation, Comptonisation, photon-photon pair production, Cyclotron lines, atomic physics, ionisation equilibrium and line diagnostics, and molecules and molecular spectra.
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Astrophysics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/astcon.html
Part of the HyperPhysics exploration environment, this section provides interconnected sections covering topics in astrophysics. It includes: the Solar system, cosmology, the Big Bang and Steven Weinberg's first three minutes scenario, the expanding Universe, the 3K cosmic radiation background, hydrogen-helium abundance, galaxy geometry, Seyfert galaxies, B L Lacertae objects, quasars, measurement of distances in astronomy, the Milky Way galaxy, stars, gravitational contraction, main sequence stars, red giants, white dwarfs, novae, red supergiants, supernovae, gravitational collapse, neutron stars, black holes and pulsars.
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Astrophysics : arXiv e-print archive
http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph
The astrophysics section of the arXiv.org e-Print archive contains papers from 1992 to date. Users may search by author, title, year or topic, and may submit papers. For each article, links are provided to the abstract, and to full-text in PostScript, PDF and other formats. Mirror sites are available.
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Astrophysics and space sciences transactions
http://www.astrophysics-and-space-sciences-transactions.net/
The journal "Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions" is a peer reviewed, open access journal publishing papers on astrophysics, cosmic rays and gamma astronomy, interstellar matter, heliospheric physics, Solar and stellar physics, planets, comets, asteroids and cosmic dust, extrasolar planets, magnetospheric physics, scientific Instrumentation, and Solar/interstellar terrestrial relations. Full text papers are available as PDF files. Print subscriptions are available. An alerting service and RSS feeds are available. Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions (ASTRA) is published by Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications) on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung e. V.
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Astrophysics II
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-902Fall-2004/CourseHome/
The MIT OpenCourseWare project is a free resource from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which offers access to many of the courses taught in the institute. This site by the Department of Physics provides the lecture notes for the second part of a graduate course in astrophysics by Professor Paul Schechter. The notes cover galactic dynamics, galaxies, galaxy formation, phenomenological cosmology, Newtonian cosmology, and Roberston-Walker models. The notes are in PDF format (Adobe Reader required).
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Astrophysics Source Code Library: Archive
http://ascl.net/
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL or ASCL.net) is a free, online library housing source codes of all sizes that are of interest to astrophysicists. All ASCL.net source codes have been used to generate results published in or submitted to a refereed journal. The founding editors of ASCL.net are Robert J. Nemiroff (an Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University) and John F. Wallin (an Associate Professor of George Mason University). Source codes are indexed by subject headings approved by the major journals in astronomy and astrophysics. ASCL.net provides a Frequently Asked Question List, as well as links to other related sites.
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Astrophysics Spectator
http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/
The Astrophysics Spectator (ISSN 1553-3107), written by astrophysicist Dr Jerome James Brainerd and published bi-monthly, aims to present "to a general audience our current understanding of and research in astrophysics". It covers topics from planetary physics to cosmology and includes Java applets that simulate astrophysical processes.
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Atomic and Molecular Physics Division
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/
This site is the home page of the Atomic and Molecular Physics division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The research areas include theoretical atomic and molecular physics, laboratory astrophysics, atmospheric spectroscopy, and masers and magnetic resonance. There are links to their own and other databases of atomic and molecular physics, and some other related activities.
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Big Bang : celebrating the world's largest physics experiment
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/bigbang/
This online exhibit from the Science Museum, London, introduces the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a major particle physics experiment which was switched on in September 2008. The illustrated site considers how scientists explore the unknown, how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built, and the mysteries that it is hoped that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will help to explain (why particles have mass, the nature and location of antimatter, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, whether there are extra dimensions, and how matter behaved immediately after the Big Bang).
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Black holes, wormholes and time travel : Royal Society Lectures
http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/61
One of the Royal Society Lectures series from the Vega Science Trust, this video by Paul Davies recorded in 2000 discusses wormholes in space and their implications for the possibility of time travel. RealPlayer is required to view the video.
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CATS Database (Astrophysical Catalogs Support System)
http://w0.sao.ru/cats/
This site is the home page of the Astrophysical Catalogs Support System. The system contains the results of many measurement and survey projects, undertaken by scientists worldwide, and gives exact co-ordinates for the radio sources of different frequency ranges, based upon the researchers' discoveries. The system also contains description of measurement methods used in each of the projects and formats of the files that hold the information about such sources. There is also an online tool for building plots for certain radio-sources. CATS is hosted by the Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia.
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Cavendish Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/
The Astrophysics Group is part of the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. The Group runs the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, situated at Lord's Bridge. Research interests include: optical aperture synthesis; cosmic microwave background; submillimetre-wave instrumentation; star formation; exotic galaxies and active galactic nuclei; low-frequency surveys and variability; origin of galaxies and galaxy formation; geometric algebra; and inferential science. The website also provides details of the Observatory and its telescopes (Ryle Telescope; Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope; Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope; Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope; Very Small Array); lists of publications (some available full-text); sky surveys; and links to related sites.
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CCP7 : Analysis of Astronomical Spectra
http://ccp7.dur.ac.uk/
This collection of software for modelling stellar atmospheres and interstellar clouds, as well as for synthesising the emerging spectra was collected as part of the CCP7 Collaborative Computational Project. The site also includes project publications, extracts from the CCP7 User Guide (in PostScript format), and links to related sites.
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Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
http://www.npl.washington.edu
This is the home page of the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA), University of Washington. CENPA supports a broad programme of experimental physics research. The researchers undertake basic research using in-house accelerators and are also engaged in non-accelerator research in Solar neutrino physics. The research groups include: research with the NPL accelerator, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the Electroweak Interaction Group, and ultra-relativistic heavy ion experiments. The site includes links to related sites.
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Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy (CDMS)
http://www.astro.uni-koeln.de/cdms/
The catalogue section of this site provides molecular line lists from the radio-frequency to the far-infrared regions for species that can or may be observed in the interstellar medium (ISM) or in circum-stellar envelopes (CSE). Each molecule has its own entry, and separate entries exit for different isotopic species or vibrational states. As of May 2008, 466 entries are present in the catalog; 221 of these have been detected in the ISM or in CSE and cover a fair fraction of the more than 140 molecules unambiguously detected in these media. The transition frequencies were predicted by fitting experimental data to established Hamiltonian models. Information is available in the General subsection of the catalogue and in two manuscripts for which links are available on the main page. A search and conversion routine permits searches for spectral signatures of specific molecules or groups thereof in certain frequency windows.
A separate section contains tables of molecules detected in the interstellar medium or circum-stellar envelopes or detected in extragalactic sources. Another section contains a help page for fitting and predicting rotationally resolved spectra with a specific, but fairly widely used program suite. Further sections include What's New, Cologne Spectroscopy Data, Links, and Contact.
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