Interesting Astronomy and Science Links

Astronomy
Proposal Tools
Journals
Atomic Physics
Physicists tools
Space Links
Computing and HTML Links

These are the ASM- and BATSE-Lightcurves of the objects I'm working on (ASM is black, BATSE is white):

Taken from the ASM and BATSE data products pages

Black Hole Candidates
Cyg X-1	Cyg X-1	V1408 Aql
GX 339-4	LMC X-1	LMC X-3
Accreting Neutron Stars
Vela X-1	Vela X-1
Her X-1	Her X-1

Astronomy

• The homepage of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sect. Astronomy in Tübingen,
• Astronomers email and postal adresses
• HEASARC, the High Energy Astronomy Archive at NASA Goddard (X-ray staff homepages).
• RXTE Guest Observers Facility, their Software News, the Data Analysis and Processing Section of the homepage and the XTE Frequently Asked Questions (list) and list of known bugs.
• PCAbackest and PCARMF.
• Keith Arnaud (Mr. XSPEC).
• FTOOLS (Frequently Asked Questions)
• AAS
• AGN Watch
• Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data (WISARD)
• Astrophysics Jobs Rumor Mill
• Observatories et al.:
  • European Southern Observatory,
  • Space Telescope Science Institute
  • ESA IUE data server
• Data Archives:
  • SIMBAD home page and SIMBAD Query
  • Astronomical Data Center.
  • National Space Science Data Center
  • NED.
• Pretty pictures:
  • pictures from ROSAT,
  • The Milky-Way astronomy related animations.

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Proposal Tools

• Object observability and other useful stuff

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Journals and Books

• Preprints: astro-ph (German mirror)
• Search: ADS Abstract Service at CDS (Strasbourg) and SAO (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Science Citation Index
• Astronomy Journals: ApJ, A&A, AJ, PASP,
• Physics Journals: PROLA, Rep. Progr. Physics, Reviews of Modern Physics, Living Reviews in Relativity
• Instrumentation: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A
• Lecture notes in physics
• Landolt-Börnstein
• Newsletters: IBVS, Matters of Gravity, Active Galaxies Newsletter, GCNews
• Library catalogs: UB Tübingen, Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (access to the most important library catalogs in Germany and internationally), Library of Congress (Z39.50 access).

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Atomic Physics

• Atomic Data for Astrophysics.
• CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy
• Center for X-Ray Optics
• Atomic Scattering Factors
• Various data from the NIST atomic data archives

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A Physicists Toolbox

Physics:

• The Fundamental Physical Constants, unfortunately only in mks.
• The NRL Plasma Formulary
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Mathematics:

• and

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Space

Note also the following Web-Indexes on Astronautics and Space Science:

• Astronautics information at einet.
• Manned Spaceflight Missions

Computing and HTML

• check a site for dead links (alternative from W3.org)

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