Phys 5561 Useful Links

Generally Useful Links. Starting off with ones which were Useful the last time the class was taught, it will evolve as this semester goes on.

• The textbook's webpage.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day.

• HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, home of the High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week.

• Earth Observatory – lots of cool pictures of Earth from space.

• Sky and Telescope Magazine.

• Astronomy Magazine.

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics online.

• Windows to the Universe site - gobs of astronomical information.

• The Universe Today – space and astronomy news.

• Solarviews.com – a lot of good, up to date solar system info.

• Astronomical Image Library – a search engine for astro pictures.

• Ast 1040 lecture notes.

• Quicktime animation of binary stars in orbit.

• A good lecture on Color Index.

• How the radiation pressure light mill really works.

• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the SkyServer where you can get data, and a huge Grid Computing project for analyzing the data.

• Solar neutrinos: John Bahcall's home page. He was a leading theorist on the subject, and has a number of good articles in the "Solar Neutrinos" tab to the left of the page. The spectrum of nus is on the front page.

• A picture of the sun as seen in neutrinos by Super-K.

• The MINOS project.

• The Soudan Mine Underground Lab.

• The CDMS experiment.

• The Really Big Solar Flare of 2 April 2001.

• The Really Big Solar Flare of 29 October 2003

• The SOHO mission home page.

• The current space weather.

• A new solar observatory makes some great new Sun pictures.

• The cosmology powerpoint.

• The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect, an explanation showing what effect contributes what power to the spherical harmonic power diagram.

• A Dark Energy article from Physics Web.

• A great Cosmology Tutorial.

  • With an associated Cosmological Parameter Calculator.

• Tom Jordan's “cosmology almost without general relativity” article.