The Net Advance of Physics

The Net Advance of Physics:
ASTRONOMY

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS:
See also History of Astronomy and History of Astrophysics

General: Handbooks:
- Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (3rd edition) by Martin V. Zombeck [Cambridge University Press, 2007] Classic reference work. The Supplementary Web Links section lists hundreds of other useful sites in a logically organised fashion.
- Astrobites: The astro-ph Reader's Digest Written by postgraduate students: one paper a day from the astro-ph section of arXiv, retold in a form meant to be accessible to non-specialists.
General: Introductory and Education: UCSD Astronomy Tutorial (Smith and Rappoport);
- From Stargazers to Starships by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Astronomy Curriculum]
- The revolution in astronomy education: Data science for the masses by K. D. Borne et al. [2009/09]
- Astronomy Education Research: Developmental History of the Field and Summary of the Literature by J. M. Bailey [2011/01]
General:
- MIT Open Courseware
- Astrophysics in the Year ... by Virginia Trimble et al.
  - Astrophysics in 2005 [2006/06]
  - Astrophysics in 2006 [2007/05] 244 pp.
- The Universe in Problems: Warm-Up by Yu. L. Bolotin and I. V. Tanatarov [Problems for students of general astronomy.]
- Frontiers of Astrophysics by Heino Falcke and Peter L. Biermann [1997/11]
- The world according to the Hubble Space Telescope by Mario Livio [2003/03] 83 pp.
- Lectures on Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology by Luis Anchordoqui [2007/06]
- Micro-Arcsecond Radio Astrometry by Mark J. Reid and M. Homma [2013/12]
- Atomic and Molecular Data for Optical Stellar Spectroscopy by Ulrike Heiter et al. [Physica Scripta 90, 054010 (2015)]
- High Resolution Laboratory Spectroscopy by Sandra Brünken and Stephan Schlemmer [2016/05]
- Astronomical Observations: A Guide for Allied Researchers by Pauline Barmby [2018/12]
General: Applied:
- Net Advance of Physics Retro: Astronomy
- Stargazers and Sunwatchers by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum] Basic observational astronomy: celestial sphere etc.
- The Cosmos in Your Pocket: How Cosmological Science Became Earth Technology. I by William T. Bridgman [2007/10]
- Whither Does the Sun Rove? by Alejandro Gangui [Physics Teacher 49, 91 (2011/02)] How to find deviation of sunrise from due east.
- Diurnal astronomy: using sticks and threads to find our latitude on Earth by Nestor Camino and Alejandro Gangui [Physics Teacher 50, 40 (2012)]
- A planetarium at school by E. Bonacci [2013]
- The simplest method to measure the geocentric lunar distance: a case of citizen science by Jorge I. Zuluaga et al. [2014/05] Using only a modern digital camera.
- Liberar al Globo Terráqueo by Alejandro Gangui [Revista Latino-Americana de Educacão em Astronomia 17, 67 (2014)] Use of a parallel-globe in teaching astronomy. In Spanish.
- Problems and Exercises of Geodesy by Abdelmajid Ben Hadj Salem [2016/12] In French.
- The Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science by Travis A. Rector et al. [2017/03]
- Canvas and Cosmos: Visual Art Techniques Applied to Astronomy Data by Jayanne English [International Journal of Modern Physics D 26, 173010 (2017)]
- Simple demonstration experiments for astronomical parallax by Markus Pössel [Science in School 39, 40 and 40, 40 (2017)]
- Britannia Rule the Waves by Markus Nielbock and Thomas Müller [2017/08] Meant to teach students about the longitude problem in the 18th Century.
- How the Vikings Navigated with the Sun by Markus Nielbock [2017/08] For students.
- Navigation in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond by Markus Nielbock [2017/08] For students.
General: Internet Resources:
- Internet Resources for Radio Astronomy by Heinz Andernach [1998/07]
- A New Resource for College Distance Education Astronomy Laboratory Exercises by Nicole P. Vogt et al. [American Journal of Distance Education 27, 189 (2013)] The resource in question is the General Astronomy Education Source at New Mexico State University.
General: OBSERVATIONAL:
- Towards High-Resolution Astronomical Imaging by Craig Mackay et al. [2019/05]
General: OBSERVATIONAL MISHAPS:
- Observational Mishaps - a Database by Kaspar von Braun et al. Unfortunately, the database described in the article seems to be gone.
Types: X RAY;
Type: HIGH ENERGY:
- First Steps into Physics in the Winery by Roberto Benedetti et al. [2012/07]
Type: LABORATORY:
- The Impact of Recent Advances in Laboratory Astrophysics on our Understanding of the Cosmos by D. W. Savin et al. [2011/12]
- Astrophysics in Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Laboratory Astrophysics by Sang Pyo Kim [2018/07]
Type: MILLIMETER:
- Introduction to Millimeter/Sub-Millimeter Astronomy by Thomas L. Wilson [2009/03]
Type: MULTI-MESSENGER:
- Multi-Messenger Astrophysics by Péter Mészáros et al. [2019/06]
- Introduction to Multi-Messenger Astronomy by Andrii Neronov [2019/07]
Type: NUCLEAR:
- Introduction to nuclear astrophysics by Christian Iliadis [2009/11]
- Nuclear Processes in Astrophysics: Recent Progress by Vincenzo Liccardo et al. [2018/05]
Type: RADIO:
- Internet Resources for Radio Astronomy by Heinz Andernach [1998/07]
- Techniques of Radio Astronomy by Thomas L. Wilson [2011/11]
- Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy by Danny C. Price et al. [Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 5, 1602002 (2016)]
- Unveiling The Mysteries Of The Cosmos: An Overview Of Radio Astronomy And Its Profound Insights by M. Panda and Y. Chandra [2023/08]
Type: RELATIVISTIC:
- Introduction to relativistic astrophysics and cosmology through Maple by V. L. Kalashnikov [2001/03]
- Yet Another Introduction to Relativistic Astrophysics by Luigi Foschini [2017/03] 132 pp.
Type: TIME-DOMAIN:
- Random time series in Astronomy by Simon Vaughan [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 371, 2011.0549 (2013)]
Re: CHAOS, COMPLEXITY, ETC.:
- 25 Years of Self-Organized Criticality: Solar and Astrophysics by Markus J. Aschwanden et al. [2014/03] 139 pp.
Re: CHIRALITY:
- Chirality in astrophysics by A. Brandenburg [2021/10]
Re: COMPUTATION:
- Genetic algorithms in astronomy and astrophysics by Vinesh Rajpul [2012/02]
- Evolutionary Computation in Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Review by José A. García Gutiérrez [2012/02]
- Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy by Danny C. Price et al. [Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 5, 1602002 (2016)]
- Phylogenetic Tools in Astrophysics by Didier Fraix-Burnet [2017/03]
- Higher Order Accurate Space-Time Schemes for Computational Astrophysics -- Part I -- Finite Volume Methods by Dinshaw S. Balsara [2017/03]
- Astrophysics and Big Data: Challenges, Methods, and Tools by Mauro Garofalo et al. [2017/03]
- Extracting Insights from Astrophysics Simulations by Nathan J. Goldbaum [2017/11]
- Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences by Giuseppe Carleo et al. [2019/03]
- Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Overview by Dayla Baron [2019/04]
- Applications of AI in astronomy by S. G. Djorgovski et al. [2022/12]
- Introduction of machine learning for astronomy by Y. Wang et al. [2023/02]
- Analyzing astronomical data with machine-learning techniques by M. H. Z. Haghighi [2023/02]
- An astronomer's guide to machine learning by S. A. Webb and S. R. Goode [2023/04]
- Statistical machine learning for astronomy: A textbook by Y.-S. Ting [2025/06] 677 pp.
Re: DENSITY FUNCTION:
- Covariant density functional theory in nuclear physics and astrophysics by J. Yang and J. Piekarewicz [2019/12]
Re: FEW-BODY PROBLEM:
- The Few-Body Problem in Astrophysics by M. Valtonen and S. Mikkola [Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 29, 9 (1991)]
Re: FOURIER METHODS:
- Fourier domain [methods of studying astronomical time variablilty] by M. Bachetti and D. Huppenkothen [2022/09]
Re: QUANTUM FIELD THEORY:
- Amplitudes for Astrophysicists I: Known Knowns by Daniel J. Burger et al. [2017/04]
- Astrophysics in Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Laboratory Astrophysics by Sang Pyo Kim [2018/07]
Re: STATISTICS:
- Statistics in astronomy by Eric D. Feigelson [Encyclopedia for Statistical Science, 2009]
- Statistical Methods for Astronomy by Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu [2012/05]
- Bayesian Model Averaging in Astrophysics: A Review by David Parkinson and Andrew R. Liddle [Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 6, 3 (2013)]
- Statistical machine learning for astronomy: A textbook by Y.-S. Ting [2025/06] 677 pp.
Aspects: BACKGROUND RADIATION; BLACK HOLES; COSMIC STRINGS; COSMOLOGY; DIRTY FIREBALLS; DISTANCE INDICATORS; FAST RADIO BURSTS; GALACTIC CLUSTERS; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; JETS; LOCAL GROUP; PLANETS; QUASARS; SOLAR SYSTEM; STARS; TRANSIENTS;
Aspects: ASTROPHOTONICS:
- Astrophotonics: a new era for astronomical instruments by Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Pierre Kern [Optics Express 17, 1880 (2009)]
- Astrophotonics: The Rise of Intergrated Photonics in Astronomy by Barnaby Norris and Joss Bland-Hawthorn [2019/09]
Aspects: CALENDAR:
- The Calendar by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
Aspects: CONSTANTS AND PARAMETERS:
- General Data Homepage: Appendix to M. Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics with links to numerous sites.
Aspects: IMAGING:
- Coded Apeture Imaging in High-Energy Astrophysics by João Braga [2019/09]
Aspects: OBSERVATIONAL INSTRUMENTS: History:
- Observatories by Kevin Krisciunas [1999/02] Related to entry in the IOP Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Astronomical technology -- the past [since 1960] and the future by Immo Appenzeller [Astronomische Nachrichten 337, 694 (2016)]
Aspects: OBSERVATIONAL INSTRUMENTS: Types: OPTICAL;
Aspects: OBSERVATIONAL INSTRUMENTS: ARCHAIC:
- Net Advance of Physics Retro: Astronomy
- The Cross Staff by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
- The Sundial by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
Aspects: SKY SURVEYS:
- Sky Surveys by S. G. Djorgovski et al. [2012/03]

The Net Advance of Physics: ASTRONOMY

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS

The Net Advance of Physics:
ASTRONOMY