Journals/papers:

• Nature
• Science
• NASA's ADS (also available here)
• arXiv: astro-ph: daily / weekly / search interface / uploads (UK mirror)
• ApJ
• MNRAS
• PASP
• A&A
• PASJ
• AJ
• ARA&A
• Saas-Fee Advanced Courses for Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Active Galaxies Newsletter
• Leicester University Library
• IoA (Cambridge) Library

News:

Sky Watch:

• GCN - The Gamma ray bursts Coordinates Network
• ATel - The Astronomer's Telegram
• ASM Light Curves from RXTE
• Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Transient Monitor

Newspapers:

• Financial Times
• Independent
• Guardian
• Telegraph

Magazines/periodicals:

• Scientific American
• New Scientist
• Wired
• Sky and Telescope
• The Economist

Blogs:

• The AstroStat Slog Weaving together Astronomy + Statistics + ...
• Statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science (Andrew Gelman)
• Leaves on the Line (Andrew Jaffe)
• The e-Astronomer (Andy Lawrence)
• Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait)
• Cosmic Variance (group effort)
• 3 Quarks Daily
• Pharyngula (P Z Myers)
• ArXiv physics review (from MIT)
• Skeptic Blog
• Mind Hacks
• Bad Science
• David Colquhoun's Improbable Science
• Richard Wiseman
• Jerry Coyne's evolution blog
• Information is Beautiful

Podcasts:

• In Our Time (Radio 4)
• Philosophy Bites with David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton

Useful data:

• NIST Physical Reference Data
• X-ray data booklet
• Verner's atomic data for astrophysics
• TOPbase Opacity Project database
• Zombeck (Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics)
• Photoelectric edge energies (from Verner et al. 1995)
• X-ray properties of the elements
• X-ray interactions with matter
• X-ray data server at Uppsala University (Sweden)
• Information on the elements from American Elements
• Energy unit converter
• Time conversion
• HyperPhysics notes
• HyperMaths notes
• Differentiation/Integration formulae

Observatories:

Current X-ray missions:

• Chandra CXC (and UK mirror)
• XMM-Newton homepage
• RXTE GOF
• INTEGRAL
• Swift: at GSFC and in the UK
• Astro-E2: JAXA/ISAS, NASA/GSFC, ESA

Future X-ray Missions:

• Glast - Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (2007+?)
• AstroSat (2008+?)
• Constellation-X
• Gen-X
• XEUS
• MAXIM - micro-arcsecond X-ray imaging!
• The Lobster-ISS All-Sky Monitor for soft X-rays
• MAXI - 0.5-30 keV X-ray survey

Past X-ray missions

• BeppoSAX
• ASCA GOF
• ROSAT
• EUVE
• Ginga
• EXOSAT

Optical/UV:

• Liverpool Robotic Telescope
• FUSE
• HST
• JWST - the next BIG space telescope
• Lick/UCO
• ESO
• ING
• AAO
• SAAO
• Gemini
• CTIO

Radio/IR:

• VLA
• MERLIN
• UKIRT
• JCMT
• Spitzer
• ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter Array
• SKA - square kilometer array

Non-electromagnetic:

• LISA - gravitational waves from space
• LIGO - ground based gravitational wave detector (US)
• GEO600 - ground based gravitational wave detector (Germany-UK)
• VIRGO ground based gravitational wave detector (France-Italy)
• AMANDA - neutrinos in Antarctica
• Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan
• Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Canada)

Databases:

• XMM-Newton data archive
• Chandra data archive (and mirror site at LEDAS, Leicester)
• MAST Multi-Mission Archive at Space Telescope
• Beppo-SAX (NFI) data archive
• NED
• CDS/Simbad Strasbourg
• The SDSS
• Infra-red Processing and Analysis Center
• NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center
• Leicester's 'Digitized Sky Survey' Site
• SkyView Virtual Observatory
• HEASARC Archives
• LEDAS Archives
• ScanPI (IRAS survey data)

Notes (physics, maths, astronomy & statistics):

• Eric Weisstein's World of Science (physics, mathematics, astronomy)
• Hypermath
• Hyperphysics
• PlanetMath.org
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• AstroWeb: Astronomy Resources
• An Astronomy Hypertextbook
• Wikipedia - the on-line encyclopedia
• "Handbook of Mathematical Functions" by Abramowitz & Stegun (1964)

Statistics:

• The California-Harvard Astrostatistics Collaboration
• Practical Statistics for Astronomers by J. V. Wall & C. R. Jenkins
• Electronic Statistics Textbook
• Some notes on goodness of fit tests
• Statistics quotes
• Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy
• Bayesian Inference for the Physical Sciences by Tom Loredo
• A Statistics Bibliography
• StatCodes
• MCMC Tutorial
• MCMC Preprint Service
• e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
• Statistics lectures: Part I and Part II by Peter Freeman (from X-ray Astronomy School 2003).
• The Royal Statistical Society

Debunking, myth-busting and baloney:

• Not even wrong!
• The Skeptics Society
• Skeptic Magazine
• Skeptic Report
• Talk Origins
• Behind the Headlines (NHS) disect the media's inability to cover medical news properly
• Stats experts disect the news
• Help with statistics
• Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column. See also www.badscience.net
• The Skeptic's Dictionary

Useful software:

Applications (Astronomy/Statistics/Data analysis):

• The XMM SAS (see also the "SAS Cookbook" from MPE and "ABC Guide" from GSFC)
• The Chandra CIAO software
• Starlink
• Statistical codes (at PSU)
• On-line statistics calculators
• Numerical Recipes
• R: home; manuals; FAQ; CRAN
• IRAF Homepage
• PG Plot
• XANADU (ie: XSPEC, XRONOS, XIMAGE)
• FTOOLS
• Multivariate stats codes
• SAOimage DS9
• QDP
• StatLib at CMU
• Numerical methods
• Bevington & Robinson codes ("Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences")
• Cloudy - photoionised plasma by Gary J. Ferland
• XSTAR - photoionised plasma by Tim Kallman
• Free software for Atomic and Plasma Physics

Programming resources:

Bash (scripting)
• Bash reference manual
• Bash scripting guide
• Bash "how to..." guide
• Introduction to Bash
Fortran
• NAG for Fortran 90
• Fortran 90 articles (Michael Metcalf)
• Fortran 90 for the F77 programmer
• Fortran library
• Notes on Fortran
IDL
• IDL homepage (ITT, formerly RSI)
• IDL Astronomy library (at GSFC)
• IDL codes (Craig Markwardt)
• IDL Astronomy library (at Tubingen)
• Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (by David W. Fanning)
• Manipulate and Visualize Scientific Data - An online IDL tutorial
• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab IDL Web Page
• Introduction to IDL from astronomers
• IDL online documentation
R
• R project homepage
• Download R for Linux/Mac OS/Windows
• R documents (main page)
• books about R
• R tutorial (2006, Summer School for Astronomers, Penn State)
• A Quick, Painless Tutorial and Reference on the R Statistical Package (Prof Norm Matloff)
• SimpleR (John Verzani, 2002)
• R reference card
• R by example (Ajay Shah)
• R graphics gallery
• Using R (John Maindonald)
HTML
• Beginners Guide to HTML (NCSA)
• W³C HTML homepage
• W³C MarkUp Validation Service
• IconBazaar - graphics icons
• Icon Archive - graphics icons
• Composing good HTML
• Bare Bones guide to HTML
• HTML quick reference
• HTML tutorial
Tcl/Tk
• Download Tcl/Tk
• Tcl tutorial
• Tcl/Tk manual pages
• Tcl commands
PostScript
• Tutorial and Cookbook (Adobe Systems Inc)
• First Guide to PostScript
• Postscript tutorial (basic)
• Practical PostScript (by David Byram-Wigfield)

Miscellany:

• awk
• LaTeX
• Help with LaTeX commands
• LaTeX project homepage
• GhostScript/View
• Grace
• Emacs

Research groups and individuals:

People:

• Rick Edelson (UCLA)
• Bob Warwick (Leicester)
• AGN/GnT (GSFC). See also the Tartarus database
• Niel Brandt (Penn State)
• Paul Nandra (ICL)
• Dirk Grupe (Ohio)
• Chris Reynolds (Maryland)
• Karen Leighly (Oklahoma
• Phil Armitage (Colorado)
• Keith Arnaud (GSFC, NASA)
• Andy Ptak's GSFC page
• Ed Colbert (JHU)
• Andrea Merloni (MPA)
• David Ballantyne (CITA)
• Paolo Coppi (Yale)

X-ray/AGN Groups:

UK
• Southampton Astronomy Group
• IoA X-ray group (Cambridge, UK)
• MSSL group
• X-ray/Observational Astronomy (XRAO) Group (Leicester)
• X-ray group at ICL
• Warwick Astrophysics Group
• Nottingham Astronomy Group
• Extragalactic Research at Durham
• Open University Astronomy
US
• QED group (CfA, Harvard)
• AGN Watch (Consortium led from Ohio)
• Center for Space Research (MIT)
• NRL X-ray group
• Pennsylvania State X-ray group
• Columbia (NY) Astrophysics Laboratory (with XMM/RGS group)
• UCLA Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• UMass Astrophysics group
Europe
• Amsterdam Astronomy group
• Warsaw Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre (CAMK)
Japan
• AGN group at Tohoku University (Japan)
• X-ray group at ISAS (Japan)

Organisations:

• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• AAS (American Astronomical Society)
• HEAD (High Energy Astrophysics Division)
• The Royal Society (RS)
• The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
• Institute of Physics
• Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) - formerly PPARC

Internet search

• Google
• Alta Vista
• Yahoo
• Ask Jeeves
• Yellow Pages

Ents:

Leicester

• Leicester Guide (bars/restaurants/clubs)
• Pheonix cinema
• De Montfort Hall
• pictureperfect-events.com Wedding planning by Picture Perfect Events (Leicestershire)

Cambridge (my old stomping grounds)

• Picture House cinema
• Cinema listing (Warners)
• Places to drink
• The Corn Exchange
• Ad Hoc recommends...
• Ent Listings
• Camra in Cam

Maintained by Simon Vaughan (sav2 at star. le. ac. uk)
Last updated: 28/09/2009
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