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Astrophysics Group News

Sean Keen making adjustments to the MIRI, (Mid InfraRed Instrument), flight instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST, during environmental testing in RAL Space's thermal vacuum chamber at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 16th August 2011. Credit: Stephen Kill, STFC

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...

Dr David Kipping

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.
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The star Fomalhaut and the belt of dust surrounding it, as seen in the far-infrared by the Herschel Space Observatory

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...


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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

AAT Data Archive

ADS Abstract Service

Astroweb - Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS).

Atomic line list

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

JPL Molecular Spectroscopy

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

NIST Physical Reference Data - Physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data.

Simbad Astronomical Database

SkyView - A virtual observatory on the internet.

STSci Multimission Data Archive (MAST) -  HST, IUE, EUVE, ASTRO & ROSAT .

MAST DSS

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)

Starlink Project Homepage

Xephem - Interactive astronomical ephemeris software.

Journals and Magazines

Below is a list of popular on-line journals and magazines.

Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomical Journal

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

Astrophysical Journal

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.

New Scientist

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)

Keck

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)

SOFIA

Subaru

Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG)

United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)

Space-Based Observatories

Chandra X-ray observatory

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)

Herschel

Hipparcos

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Planck

ROSAT

Spitzer Space Telescope

XMM-Newton

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).

NASA home page.

UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC home page).

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS home page).

Royal Society home page.

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