RESOURCES for AST2001 - Fall 2008

Great general sites:
Hypertext on astrophysics, Copyright R. Nave, GSU
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD
UniverseSandbox
)

NEWSWORTHY
Nobel Prize in Physics (parity(mirror), charge, time)

COBALT DECAY http://physics.nist.gov/Genint/Parity/expt.html

KAON DECAY http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/kaniol/f2000_lect_nuclphys/lect2/kaon_decay.htm

CHAPTER 1:

Atmospheric transmission (from Bill Blair, JHU, fuse.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/atm_trans.html)

  

Atmospheric refraction

THE MULTIWAVELENGTH SKY
Palomar Sky Survey - 48" Schmidt

Colors  (red, blue  digital sky survey)

"ALL SKY"IMAGES 
         Optical (+)
         Infrared
         Radio+
         Microwave
         Xray

TELESCOPES, etc.   Some other telescopes I've come to know and love:

Very Large Array
        (beam, dirty, clean, Xray overlay --  Abell 13 cluster of galaxies)
Arecibo
Chandra X-ray Observatory  (telescope, mirror animations )  (Abell 85, radio(green) ACIS overlay)  PSF Library  Cas A difference
Hubble Space Telescope  (servicing missions)
Spitzer Infrared Telescope(telescope info)
Hipparcos background
and coming....  Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) (construction, first light,  interferometer )
       SOFIA

Binary stars



        simulator
         Algol
          eclipse simulator

A little history

Visual Binaries
Binary Overview (T.Herter)
Java Spectroscopic Binary
Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binaries

SOLAR ACTIVITY
Surface activity, etc.
Sunspot location animation
Earth dynamo flip
http://spaceweather.com/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Solar dynamo http://soi.stanford.edu/press/GONG_MDI_03-00/

Zeeman http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/quantum/zeeman.html

Stellar evolution
Applet:  http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/astro101/java/evolve/evolve.htm
http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~afont/evol/m001c004.html

PLANETARY NEBULA IMAGES:
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/planetary_nebulae.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/pn/photo-gallery.html

(long exposure on right, Sirius B burned hidden)


The image, obtained at Pic du Midi in 1999, of the field of (4.5x6) arcmin around Sirius.
Sirius is hidden by a mask (22 arcsec) in the center of the image, of which the horizontal support
is also visible. On this animation, trajectories of Sirius-A (white) and Sirius-B (red)
are illustrated, the crosses showing the position of A in 1985 and 1999.
Between these two dates, Sirius-A moved by 14 arcsec, whereas no star of the field changed position.
The sinusoidal path of A and B is the result of the rectilinear proper motion of the center of
gravity of the system and the exentric ellipse (e=0.59) of the orbital movement of A and B
with a 50.09 years period. Current A-B distance is 6 arcsec.

nuclear binding energy
plot of binding energy (low Z) - from R.D. Piccard, Ohio University
plot of solar abundances - from C. R. Cowley,  U. Mich.

Supernovae

More than you ever wanted to know about supernovae and supernova remnants
Stellar evolution tutorial with animations
The Very Latest supernovae!


Supernova remnants  (APOD)

Cassiopeia A
(T. DeLaney work in progress Cas A )

If you want to read about SHOCKS (optional)

Spitzer Cas A pdf  http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v652n1/65156/65156.html
    Artist conception - credit NASA/JPL
    Movie - credit NASA/JPL press release

Doppler movies ("both", rotdec)   All   Si

SN 1987A
 
Animation of explosion http://www.aavso.org/images/sn1987a.mpg
Hitting the ring-  and by 2004 !!
Moving light echoes
Neutrino detection   ( Kamiokonde [3300m3 H2O,  IMB , Baksan

Crab
animation of pulsar
Pulsar wind movie
Spin-down paper
-

Damage from nearby supernovae?

Relativity
Nice hypertext overviews  (special and general)

X-ray binary overview http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/~bexmgr/xbp.html
Movies (all sky binary variability,   "groovy movie" )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Nuclear/mossb.html (Mossbauer effect)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_waves

White Dwarfs in globular cluster M4

Hyperphysics page on White Dwarfs
Misc. nice stuff on Chandresekhar, White Dwarfs
Animations of visits to neutron star and ...
Very nice introduction to neutron stars  ....

Various tutorials/summaries/pix on X-ray binaries
The X-ray Binaries Page
X-ray Binaries

Equivalence principle
    Review of new experiments

21 cm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfine_splitting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_cm_line


http://www.almaz.com/nobel/physics/obit-purcell.html
http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/hist_ewenpurcell.shtml

HII REGIONS
HII regions  (Heart and Soul,  Rosette, Orion constellation,  Orion Nebula)

MOLECULAR LINES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_molecules_in_interstellar_space

Molecular spectroscopy: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/molecule/molec.html#c2
Rotational energy levels:  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/molecule/rotrig.html#c2

Maser discovery interview with Charlie Townes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_cloud



CO map of galactic plane:

MILKY WAY

spectacular composite photo

Multiwavelength Milky Way

VRML views of galaxy  (CTSSB)

Size
HISTORY
                 Shapley - RG (asymptotic)  in Glob Clus

                 RR Lyrae   distance indicator (4hrs-1day,ex. light curve (MSU), 7000K, 80Lsolar,
                 current prospects
            
               
       

       
         Latest research on the Galactic Center BH region  (animation)
- derived mass distribution
        Distance to Galactic Center - current research

SPIRAL STRUCTURE
Spiral structure  tutorial -  shocks
          Molecular cloud encounters density wave - animation by G. Rieke (AZ)
          Movie of collision producing spiral density waves http://burro.cwru.edu/Academics/Astr222/Galaxies/Spiral/spiral.html
                            M51

 

Clusters of Galaxies and radio sources:





















  GBT Proposal: Brown & Rudnick

Conference proceedings:  http://www.astro.virginia.edu/coolflow/proc.php  Doc R. contribution
      

COSMOLOGY

Distance to Virgo summary 

Original Hubble diagram

Overall wonderful cosmology site (Ned Wright Cosmology Tutorial)

Models (lambda=0) - expansion vs. time

Supernovae 1a and the acceleration of the Universe
more supernovae 1a ---  latest Wright plot

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND   (UMN research)

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe  

Great set of links and physics of acoustic peaks of and estimation of parameters from the CMB

BBN (Ned Wright diagrams):