Links to Publications in Astronomy

Astrophysical Journal or here

Astronomical Journal or here

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific or here

BAAS

Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Icarus

Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society

Astronomy and Astrophysics or here

Astronomy and Astrophysics - Supplement

Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

IAU Circulars

Astrophysics and Space Science

Space Science Reviews

New Astronomy or here

Nature

Science

Scientific American

Physics Today

Science News

Sky & Telescope Magazine

Astronomy Magazine


Links to Newsletters

a whopping list of newsletters

Star Formation Newsletter (Bo Reipurth, editor)

Hot Star Newsletter

Cool Star Newsletter (Steve Skinner, editor)

Star Clusters Young and Old Newsletter

Be Star Newsletter

Peculiar Stars Newsletter

AGB Newsletter

Galactic Center Newsletter

Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter

The Magellenic Clouds Newsletter

Standard Stars Newsletter

History of Astronomy Newsletter or here

IBVS


Organizations

AAS (American Astronomical Society)

ASP (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

AIP (American Institute of Physics)

APS (American Physical Society)

NAS (National Academy of Sciences)

AAAS main and AAAS R&D (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and NASA TV

NAI NASA's Astrobiology Institute

NSF (National Science Foundation)


Resources Useful While Observing

Standard Objects for Astronomy

Telluric Star Locator -- nice tool from the IRTF

Standard Star Search -- ESO tool

Radial Velocity Standard Stars

Infrared Photometric Calibration from CARA

Infrared Photometric/Spectroscopic Calibration from UKIRT

Lick Standards Page

Landolt Standards

Photometric Systems (Asiago Database)

Astronomical Unit Conversion (mags <==> Jy)

Magnitude / Flux Density Conversion

VLSR calculator

where is the sun?

Parallactic Angle Calculator -- also from the IRTF

Star Altitude Calculator -- from ING

HeNeAr, ThAr, and FeAr Line Lists

Schott Glass transmission profiles

StScI Digitized Sky Survey

2MASS/SDSS Finder Charts

Sky Maps for the Professional Astronomer

APS Finder Charts

SkyView

Statistical Asteroid Model (infrared/submm source counts)

Solar System Dyanmics including and ephemeris generator

WMKO object visibility calculator

Washington Double Star Catalog

Observational Mishaps

instruments on large telescopes

telescope/instrument manuals

telescope observing schedules

the small telescope cooperative

palomar nightlogs Also the new 200" web-camera and the all-sky camera courtesy of Charbonneau and Kotredes

keck I and keck II nightlogs or metrics webpage, summit conditions


Software

Unix help

more Unix help

LaTeX help

more LaTeX help

SuperMongo help

STSDAS help (contains generally useful computer info as well)

IRAF help

IDL and IDL astronomy helpt

Astronomical Software Directory Service (ASDS)

Astrophysics Source Code Library Archive

Astronomical Software on the Web and Catalog Search Software from cfa

Statistics Definitions

Statistical Software for Astronomy

Matt's Script Archive

File Format Conversion


Education

Astronomy Education Review

ASP education resources

AAS Education Newsletter

Demos and Animations for Teaching Astronomy

Astronomy Knowledge Database

Chronicle of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

A large list of Education Journals


Links to Other Resources I Use with Some Frequency

Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstracts and Articles

astro-ph listings for this week

SIMBAD

Astronomy Acronyms

Caltech access to Online Journals

astronomy talks in pasadena for this week

Kurucz stellar models

ROSAT/MPE or ROSAT/GSFC

Hipparcos/TYCHO final and Hipparcos/TYCHO intermediate

2MASS

2MASS images

VizieR Services

Observatories from the WWW Virtual Library

CATCH listing of telescopes/instruments accessible through NOAO

AURA

Catalogs of Catalogs

Home Pages of Professional Astronomers

A list of acronyms useful at the end of the millenium

DSS images of clusters, galaxies, nebulae, etc. by Mikkel Steine

Messier objects ADC Catalog Viewer

Galaxy Map

Mermilliod Open Cluster Database

Wilton Dias Open Cluster Database

Cambridge/IoA LMC Database

StatCodes resources from PSU

Gray's Digital Spectral Classification Atlas

Libraries of stellar spectra

UVBlue (theoretical stellar spectra at high dispersion)

Class 0 Protostars by Dirk Froebrich

Hern'andez's Ae/Be Catalog (spectra, images, SEDs, variability)

Ayres' UV spectral catalog

The O star archive

Kirkpatrick's M,L,T dwarf archive

McLeans's M,L,T NIRSPEC survey

Siegler's M,L,T Binary Catalog

IRTF/SpeX spectral atlas

Burgasser's T dwarf web page

Marley's exo-solar planetary atmospheres

BaSeL spectral synthesis

Spectrosopic Virtual Observatory

Spectra Factory (molecular lines in the infrared)

Grotrian Diagrams of Astrophysical Interest

Web Elements (fun with the periodic table)

Reflectance data for natural and man-made materials (JPL)

coefficients and constants for dust mixtures (bruce draine et al.)

Optical constants all-time reference list (ordered in time)

Jena optical constants laboratory (thomas henning et al)

Irradiated and Accretion disk models (d'alessio et al)

Online SED model fitter (robataille, whitney, et. al)

The Atomic Line List (by peter van hoof)

NIST Atomic Spectra Database

Vienna Atomic Line Database

CHIANTI Atomic Database

Kurucz Line Lists and alternate version

College and University Home Pages

NStars

spatially resolved disks (mccabe)

AstroWeb

Interferometers

AO science papers compiled by folks at WMKO

manybody.org (a star cluster dynamics collaboration)

starburst99 (simulation of star cluster phot/spect properties)

NASA's Space Science Missions

Star Count Synthesis Models

  • links to research in star and planet formation


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