Astronomy/Astrophysics Resources
Most of the items listed under physics are relevant to
astronomy and astrophysics. The items listed here are focus on astronomy
and astrophysics.
Databases
The databases listed under Physics are also useful to astronomy and astrophysics.
Those listed below are very specific to astronomy and astrophysics.
Astrophysics
Data System: Astronomy Abstract Service
The database contains abstracts from hundreds of publications,
colloquia, symposia, proceedings, and internal NASA reports. These sources
cover diverse loosely astronomy-related subjects, ranging from Electrical
Engineering through Optics to Particle Physics. They include the larger
American astronomical journals: Astron. J., Astrophys. J., Icarus, Pub.
Astron. Soc. Pac. etc, and Non-American: Astron. & Astrophys, Mon.
Not. Roy. Ast. Soc., Pub. Astron. Soc. Japan / Australia / India, Astrophys.
J. Soviet Union / Australia / Ireland, etc., as well as more general interest
journals such as Science, New Scientist, Nature, Mercury, Sky and Telescope
The primary source of abstracts is NASA's STI, who provided abstracts
from 1975 through about the middle of 1995. Since then, the majority of
the abstracts are directly from the journal editors.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. 1969-1998
Reference Collection 520.5 A862
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA) aims to present
a comprehensive documentation of the literature concerning all aspects
of astronomy, astrophysics, and their neighbouring fields. It is devoted
to the recording, summarizing, and indexing of the relevant publications
throughout the world. Since 1988, most of the information given in AAA
is available on-line in the data base INSPEC.
An on-line version of AAA in the 'reference format', i.e. without the summaries
of the papers, is available in the data base ARIBIB
of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (free at present 4/11/99)
NASA Langley
Technical Reports Server
A service which allows users to search available online NASA
published documents, including meeting presentations, journal articles,
conference proceedings, and technical reports. Many documents are available
in compressed PostScript and PDF formats. All documents are unclassified
and publicly available.
Internet gateways
If you have difficulty finding astronomy/astrophysics resources on the
Internet, try a gateway that gives a large number of astronomy/astrophysics
links and browse for likely sites e.g.
AstroWeb: Astronomy
on the Internet
Contains pointers to potentially relevant resources available
via Internet and is a product of the AstroWeb Consortium.
Astro Server Vienna
Astro
Links
List of interesting astronomical links which will lead you
to a voluminous amount of astronomical data and informations
NASA Homepage
Astronomical Society of South Australia
Source of information about Astronomy in South Australia. Links
to other Australian astronomical sites.
The Joint Australian
Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (JACARA).
Source for information about astronomy in Antarctica
Pre-prints and Publications
University
of Adelaide. Astrophysics Group Publications and Preprints
Stored in PostScript format
AstroWeb:
Astronomical & astrophysical preprints
Alphabetical list of preprint servers
xxx lanl.gov e-prints
in astrophysics
AstroWeb:
Journals and Astronomical Publications
A comprehensive list of astronomical journals and publications
with links to full-text if available
Astronomical
& astrophysical preprints Resources
Alphabetical list of preprint servers
Online Books
Astrophysics Data System
Digital Library
Online books relating to astronomy and astrophysics
Book Reviews
University of Toronto
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library Astronomy and Astrophysics Book and
Software Reviews
Citations for reviews of books on subjects related to astronomy
and astrophysics. Coverage is from 1987 (with a handful of 1986 citations).
Also covered are brief book notices (but not advertisements) that give
information useful in deciding whether or not to acquire an item. After
mid 1998, these brief citations are marked [B]
Online Journals
To locate a known
electronic journal accessible to the University of Adelaide staff and
students, search the Library's
catalogue using the "Journal Title" option. Click
here for a list of electronic journals relevant to physics and mathematical
physics available from our catalogue. The Library holds all the titles
from ScienceDirect(
except for a few), Kluwer,
Wiley,
JStor
(backset
of journals).
Astrophysics
Data System Article Service
This service provides free and unrestricted access to scanned
images of journals,
conference
proceedings and books in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The articles can
be accessed in three ways:
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Through the article service for journals and conference proceedings: Users
can query by volume and page number for a specific article.
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Through the table of contents service: Users can generate a list of all
the articles published in an issue of a journal.
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Through the abstract service: Any abstract for which a scanned article
is available will contain in its page additional options allowing users
to view or print the article.
Note that single copies of these articles may be made for research use.
Further attempts to distribute copies of articles appearing in this service
may constitute a copyright infringement.
ADS Historical
Literature Project
The ADS is working with the
John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
to digitize microfilms from selected historical publications in astronomy,
including observatory reports, bulletins and annals.
A selected portion of the scanned microfilms is currently
available through a page-by-page viewing interface.
Astronomical Software and Documentation
Service (ASDS)
This searchable site includes software packages, telescope
manuals, and related documentation.
Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
Most of the encyclopaedias and dictionaries are in the Reference Collection
520.3.
Dictionary of
Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
Designations of astronomical objects are often confusing. Astronomical
designations (also called Object Identifiers) have been collected and published
by Lortet and collaborators in Dictionaries of Nomenclature of Celestial
Objects outside the solar system (1994A&AS..107..193L).
This Info service is the electronic look-up version of the Dictionary which
is updated on a regular basis; it provides full references and usages about
13521 different acronyms.
Cambridge encyclopaedia of astronomy. 1977
Reference collection 520.3 C178
Shobbrook, Robyn M. The astronomy thesaurus. 1993.
Reference collection 520.3 S559a
Encyclopedia of cosmology : historical, philosophical, and scientific
foundations of modern cosmology. 1993.
Reference collection 523.1 H589e
Data
Astronomical Data Center
The Astronomical Data Center specializes in archiving and distributing
collections of data that have been published by professional astronomers.
Most of these data sets are in the form of computer-readable tables of
numbers, rather than images. These are often known as astronomical catalogs.
Tables published in the professional journals are simply called journal
tables. Users can search descriptive text for all data sets, browse lists
of titles, or look up data sets by the authors names.
Note: maintenance to this site discontinued by NASA as of October 1,
2002. NASA is directing ADC users to the sites below that provide similar
services.
CDS - Centre de Données
astronomiques de Strasbourg
The Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS) is a data center
dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical
data and related information.
Planetary Data System (PDS)
The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital
data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations,
and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space
Science to ensure the long-term usability of data, to stimulate research,
to facilitate data access, and to support correlative analysis.
Atomic
and Molecular Databases
Maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Atomic and Molecular Physics Division (CfA AMP)
Atomic Data for Astrophysics
The Atomic Data for Astrophysics server provides links to basic
atomic data required for calculation of the ionization state of astrophysical
plasmas and for quantitative spectroscopy. Most of these data are utilized
in the photoionization code Cloudy and other radiative-collisional, photoionization,
and coronal plasma codes. The data are regularly updated.
UK Astronomy Data Centre
The Data Centre is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit
and houses a good selection of data from the UK's ground based telescopes
as well as a number of catalogues.
National Space Science Data Center
The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provides network-based
and offline access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space plasma, solar
physics, lunar and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition
to selected other data and some models and software. NSSDC provides access
to online information bases about NASA and non-NASA data at the NSSDC and
elsewhere and about the spacecraft and experiments that generate NASA space
science data. NSSDC also provides information and support relative to data
management standards and technologies.
Astrocat Catalogues
Allow searches on popular astronomical catalogues.
Espenak, F. (1994). Twelve-year
planetary ephemeris: 1995-2006 (for the major planets, Sun and
Moon) Washington, DC: National
Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Scientific and Technical Information Branch.
( NASA
reference publication ; 1349). Retrieved May 21, 2002.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic
Database (NED)
It is built around a master list of extragalactic objects for
which cross-identifications of names have been established, accurate positions
and redshifts entered to the extent possible, and some basic data collected.
Bibliographic references relevant to individual objects have been compiled,
and abstracts of extragalactic interest are kept on line. Detailed and
referenced photometry, position, and redshift data, have been taken from
large compilations and from the literature. NED also includes images for
over 700,000 extragalactic objects from 2MASS, from the literature, and
from the Digitized Sky Survey.
SIMBAD astronomical
database
The SIMBAD astronomical database, created and maintained by
the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data,
cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography,
for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar
objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies.
VizieR Catalogue Service
Provides access to astronomical catalogs and data tables. Web
interface includes searching and browsing capabilities.
Handbooks, etc.
Zombeck, Martin V. Handbook
of space astronomy and astrophysics 2nd ed. 1990.
Also available in Reference collection 520.212 Z86h.2
The first chapter contains general data, physical constants,
unit conversions, etc. Chapters 2-8 cover general astronomy and astrophysics,
radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic
rays. Chapter 9 contains information on the Earth's atmosphere and environment
relevant to space science. Chapter 10 deals with special and general relativity
and chapter 11 provides relevant information in atomic physics. Electromagnetic
radiation and plasma physics are the subjects of chapters 12 and 13. The
remaining chapters essentially deal with the tools of the trade, viz.,
information on radiation and particle interactions, detectors. launch vehicles.
useful mathematical relations and statistical formulae, laboratory radiation
safety, and a comprehensive list of astronomical catalogs. Each chapter
ends with a brief bibliographical list for further reading on the subject
of the chapter or for more extensive reference material. Has a complete
index.
Handbook
of Basic Spectroscopic Atomic Data
This handbook is designed to provide a selection of the most
important and frequently used atomic spectroscopic data in an easily accessible
format. The compilation includes data for the neutral and singly-ionized
atoms of all elements hydrogen through einsteinium (Z = 1-99). The wavelengths,
intensities, and spectrum assignments are given in a table for each element,
and the data for the approximately 12,000 lines of all elements are also
collected into a single table, sorted by wavelength (a "finding list").
Norton's star atlas and reference handbook. 17th.ed.1986.
Reference collection 520 N882n
Contents:
I. General II. Useful tables
III. The Solar System IV. Stars, Nebulae and Galaxies
V. Telescopes and Accessories Appedix: Useful addresses
VI. Star Charts
The Astronomical almanac for the year 2000
Reference collection 528.05 A8
The pricipal ephemerides in this Almanac have been computed
from fundamental ephemerides of the planets and the Moon prepared at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, california, in cooperation with the US Naval
Observatory. They are in general accord with the recommendations of the
International Astronomical Union and are consistent with the IAU (1976)
system of astronomical constants apart from minor modifications introduced
to permit a better fit to observations; in particular, dynamical time-scales
and the standard reference system of J2000.0 are used where appropiate.
A brief description of the use of each ephemeris is given with it, and
the bases and additional notes are given in the Explanation at the end
of the volume.
Contents: Section A Phenomena; Section
B Time-Scales and Coordinate Systems; Section C
Sun; Section D Moon; Section
E Major Planets; Section F Satellites of
the Planets; Section G Minor Planets and Comets;
Section H Stars and Stellar Systems; Section J
Observatories; Section K Tables and Data;
Section L Explanations; Section M; Glossary;
Section N Index
Meeus, Jean. Astronomical tables of the sun, moon, and planets. 1983
Reference collection 528 M495
Contents: Part 1 Planetary Phenomena 1976-2005,
Introduction; Part2 Oppositions of Mars 0-3010;
Part 3 Equinoxes and Solstices [Earth] Duration of Astronomocal
Seasons-In Days - 3000to +6000;
Part 4 Phases of the Moon Introduction;
Part 5 Occultations of Planets and Bright Stars by the Moon;
Part 6 Sunspot Activity 1749-1981, Introduction;
Part 7 Other Tables; Bibliography;
Index
Calendar Converter
Fourmilab's calendar converter interconverts dates in a variety
of calendars, both civil and computer-related.
Missions
NASA
Space Shuttle Launches
Includes a variety of useful information about the next Shuttle launch
, the Latest Shuttle Manifest and a list of future shuttle missions.
Telescopes
AstroWeb:
Observatories and Telescopes
Images
AstroWeb:
Pretty pictures
Comprehensive alphabetical listing of servers with images
Images from the Anglo-Australian
Observatory
Photographs from the Anglo-Australian Observatory
GRIN: Great Images in NASA library
of images
A collection of over a thousand images of significant historical
interest scanned at high-resolution in several sizes
Astronomy Picture
of the Day
NASA's GSFC posts a different image or photograph daily, along
with a brief explanation.
Newsgroups and mailing list
AstroWeb:
Mailing Lists
Alphabetical list
The Astronomer's Telegram
Reporting and commenting on new astronomical observations.
International
Astronomical Union. Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Contains brief information on recent astronomical discoveries
as reported in the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs) and
the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs), as well as links to ephemerides
and orbital elements for comets and minor planets.
Annual Reports
Annual reports
of observatories
An alphabetical list of those observatories that are known
to publish Annual Reports. If available, hyperlinks to electronic versions
are provided
Meetings
AstroWeb:
Conferences and Meetings
International Astronomy
Meetings List
Compiled by Liz Bryson and archived by the Canadian Astronomy
Data Centre (CADC).
Biographies / Addresses
AstroWeb:
People
Alphabetical list of servers listing addreses, memberships,
people
NASA Astronaut Biographies
Prepared by the Astronaut Office of the Johnson Space Center.
On-Line detailed Astronaut Biographies were started with astronauts on
active duty in 1995.
Cosmonaut Biographies
Biographies of some of the cosmonauts assigned to cooperative
US/Russian projects.
The Biographical Dictionary od Scientists: Astronomers; general
editor: David Abbot. 1984
Reference Collection 520.922 A131a
A historical biographical dictionary with glossary and index
StarHeads. The
Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources
Searchable directory, continually updated, of personal WWW
pages of professional astronomers and related space scientists (PhD equivalent
and above)
StarWorld. The
Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources
Searchable directory, continually updated, of organizations,
institutions, associations, companies, and so
on, involved in astronomy and related space sciences, together with
other entries of interest
Employment
American Astronomical Society.
Job Register.
The Job Register is published monthly. On the average, 35 new
jobs are announced in each issue. The deadline for submission of job announcements
is the 15th of each month for publication in the subsequent issue.
AstroWeb: Jobs
Alphabetical list of server with job vacancies
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