ASTR 507 | Spring 2010

Course Texts

• Addenda and Errata to Peacock

Cosmology Online

• Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial
• Wayne Hu's The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies
• Sean Caroll's Cosmology Primer

Present and Future Experiments/Observations

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Some of these links are useful for Problem Set 1; for our purposes it is probably best to use the older DR7 data.

• survey goals and methods
• Sky Server
• Navigate the digital sky!
• table of key spectral lines
• finding chart

CMB Telescopes

WMAP; Planck Surveyor; South Pole Telescope

Dark Matter Detection

MACHO; EROS; CDMS; LUX; COUPP; DAMA

Neutrino Telescopes/Experiments

Super-Kamiokande, and its famous neutrino image of the Sun; Sudbury Neutrino Observatory; KamLAND; IceCube

Gamma-Ray Telescopes

Fermi; H.E.S.S.; VERITAS

Particle Accelerators

Fermilab; CERN with cool live images of collision events
SLAC; RHIC at Brookhaven; Argonne

Nuclear and Particle Physics Data Online

• Particle Data Group, the keepers of the Review of Particle Physics. An invaluable resource. Includes tabulations of physical and astrophyiscal constants, and brief reviews of key topics in cosmology and particle astrophysics, as well as key issues in particle physics.
• Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty (NIST)
• The Standard Model of particle physics explained in one page (!) at ParticleAdventure.org

Nuclear Physics

• National Nuclear Data Center (Brookhaven): a clearinghouse of nuclear data, including binding energies and reaction cross sections; the Nuclear Wallet Card is particularly handy
• Handy online Table of the Nuclides
• NuDat nuclear data page
• TUNL Nuclear Data Evaluation (light elements through A=10)

Nuclear Reactions: Cross Sections and Thermonuclear Rates

• REACLIB at JINA
• Nuclear Data for Nuclear Astrophysics at Oak Ridge
• NACRE thermonuclear reaction rate compilation

Bibliography Searches

• Astro Data Service (ADS) article search: the font of all bibliographies
• arXiv preprint archive: home of astro-ph and hep-ph, among others
• INSPIRE: an excellent source for high-energy papers not indexed in ADS

Local Talks

• Astronomy Colloquium, 4pm Tuesdays, 134 Astronomy
• Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Brown-Bag Lunch Seminar, noon Wednesdays, 358 Loomis
• Medium/High-Energy Physics Seminar, 4pm Mondays, 144 Loomis
• Physics Colloquium, 4pm Thursdays,141 Loomis

LaTeX Resources

• emulateapj pages
• AASTeX pages. Note that we have AASTeX already installed on the Sun file system, so no need to download it.
• TeX User's Group: the place for all things TeX (and LaTeX), and a big set of links.

Other

• Prized Cosmologists
  • Albert Einstein
  • Hans Bethe
  • Arno Penzias
  • Robert Wilson
  • Willy Fowler
  • John Mather
  • George Smoot
  • Saul Perlmutter
  • Adam Riess
  • Brian Schmidt