Astrophysics Group News
First instrument for the JWST completed and handed over to NASA
After
more than ten years of work by over 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed
Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of
Jupiter’s moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space
Agency and NASA. The MIRI Optical System, an instrument for the James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) that will eventually take up a position four times
further away from the Earth than the Moon. It will now be shipped to NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center where it will be integrated with the other three
instruments and the telescope. More...
RAS Keith Runcorn Prize for 2011 awarded to Dr David Kipping
Dr David Kipping is the 2011 recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Keith Runcorn Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Geophysics.
More...
Herschel sees dusty disc of crushed comets
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have
studied a ring of dust around the nearby star Fomalhaut and have deduced that
it is created by the collision of thousands of comets every day. More...
Listen: Searching through the stars for new planets
Dr Giovanna Tinetti, PhD student Ingo Waldmann and Prof. Jonathan Tennyson FRS talk to Adam Smith at the Pod Academy about their work on exoplanets and NASA’s Kepler mission More...
Useful Links
This page provides a series of links to websites that we feel may be of interest to you. The links categorized below can be accessed via the tabbed buttons. Just click to open and close each topic.
For now, we would like to draw your attention to the following University/Departmental links.
- Astrophysics Group Wiki page (access available for UCL members only)
- Query eUCLid the new library system - see also UCL Library Astronomy e-journals
- Guidelines for the PATT Roller (for UCL observers only)
- Miracle High Performance Computing Project
- UCL Centre for Cosmic Chemistry & Physics.
- Astrophysics Group outreach program
- The Extrasolar Planet Catalogue
Astronomical Databases
Astroweb - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS).
Cambridge
Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU)
Data Centre.
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS).
ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility - ESO (La Silla & Paranal) / HST archives.
Exomol - Comprehensive database of molecular line lists.
GATOR - JHK photometry for 2MASS all-sky catalogues
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).
NIST Physical Reference Data - Physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data.
SkyView - A virtual observatory on the internet.
STSci Multimission Data Archive (MAST) - HST, IUE, EUVE, ASTRO & ROSAT .
UK Astronomical Data Centre - ING (La Palma) and UKIRT (Hawaii) archive.
Astronomical Software
AstroGrid - Virtual Observatory Data-grid for UK astronomy.
DIPSO - A friendly spectrum analysis program.
ESO-MIDAS - European
Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System.
eStar - The eSTAR Project is a programme to build an intelligent robotic
telescope network.
IDL (Interactive Data Language)
IDL Astronomy User's Library - Software repository for Astronomy (maintained at GSFC).
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
Xephem - Interactive astronomical ephemeris software.
Journals and Magazines
Below is a list of popular on-line journals and magazines.
Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy
- Popular monthly US magazine.
Astronomy
& Astrophysics (EDP Sciences)
Astronomy Now - Popular monthly UK magazine.
astro-ph - Astronomy e-print archive at Los Alamos.
Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astrophysics
& Space Science - Kluwer's Astrophysics & Space Science
abstracts (UCL only).
Encyclopedia of
Astronomy &
Astrophysics - UCL only.
Icarus - Journal of Planetary Science.
Mercury - ASP Mercury Magazine.
Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
Nature - Full access to subscribers and selected
UCL users (see here
for details).
New
Astronomy - UCL only. Search e-journals service.
The
Observatory - ULO magazine.
Optical Engineering - Optical Engineering at SPIE.
Publications
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP).
Sky & Telescope - Popular monthly US magazine.
Ground-Based Observatories
The Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
The Dominion
Astrophysical Observatory
The European Southern Observatory (ESO )
The Gemini 8 Meter Telescopes
Project
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
Isaac Newton Group (ING)
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique (IRAM)
Infra Red Telescope Facility (IRTF)
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN)
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO)
National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO)
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)
National Radio Astronomical Observatories (NRAO)
Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG)
United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)
Space-Based Observatories
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Societies and Organisations
The American Astronomical Society (AAS home page).
The British Astronomical Association (BAA home page).
European Space Agency (ESA home page).
The International Astronomical Union (IAU home
page).
UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC
home page).
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS home page).
Page last modified on 16 jul 10 13:39 by Fabrizio Sidoli
