Astronomy 220C Links

Nuclear Astrophysics and Abundances

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/liqdrop.html/

Brief overview liquid drop model

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/

Periodic chart of the isotopes

http://www.jinaweb.org/

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

http://t2.lanl.gov/data/astro/molnix96/massd.html/

Nuclear binding energies

http://www.jinaweb.org/html/Rasdata.html/

Tables of reaction rates

http://t2.lanl.gov/data/qtool.html/

Reaction rate thresholds

http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/err.cgi?n=1

Anders and Grevesse (1989) tables

http://particleadventure.org/

Particle physics tutorial

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-02-introduction-to-applied-nuclear-physics-spring-2012/lecture-notes/

Online lecture notes from MIT nuclear physics course

http://amdc.in2p3.fr/web/masseval.html

2016 Atomic Mass Evaluation

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/masses/index.html

Q-value calculator

http://csnwww.in2p3.fr/amdc/amdc_en.html

ORSAY (1995) Atomic Mass Data Center

https://starlib.github.io/Rate-Library/

STARLIB: Thermonuclear Rate Library

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html

The NIST repository of fundamental physics constants

http://www.tunl.duke.edu/NuclData/

The TUNL nuclear data evaluation project (A = 3 - 20)

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

The National Nuclear Data Center

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/wallet/

Nuclear Data Cards - a wallet sized summary of nuclear information

http://t2.lanl.gov/tour/helium.html

Nuclear physics of helium burning - Hale (1997)

Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

http://bifrost.cwru.edu/personal/collins/astrobook/

Nice web-based textbook on stellar astrophysics by Collins

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/

The MESA stellar evolution code

http://cococubed.asu.edu/code_pages/codes.shtml/

Frank Timmes compilation of useful subroutines and physics

http://obswww.unige.ch/~mowlavi/evol/stev_database.html

Geneva grid of model stars

http://www.lcse.umn.edu/MOVIES/

Movies of numerical simulation of stellar convection

http://homepages.spa.umn.edu/~alex/stellarevolution/

Some models from Heger and Woosley

http://members.tripod.com/debnken/nova.html

Classical novae

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~tob/novae/

Pictures of classical novae

http://www.aavso.org/

American Association of Variable Star Observers

Supernovae in general

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://www.supersci.org

UCSC Supernova Science Center

http://www.phy.ornl.gov/groups/astro_theory/astro_theory.html

ORNL Supernova Studies

http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7212/montes/sne.html

Master link to supernovae and supernova remnants

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~burrows/

Adam Burrows explosion mechanism

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/Hydro/hydro.html

More supernova models

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/lists/RecentSupernovae.html

List of recent supernova with links to IAU circulars

http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html

Goddard supernova pages - a few movies

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/supernova/SNarchive.html

CfA Supernovae Data Archine

http://www.aerith.net/pictures/nova.html
http://www.kopernik.org/spaceimages/index.asp

Lots of discovery images of novae and supernovae

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html

Rochester supernova data archive

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/snlinks.html

Rochester master link list

Neutron Stars and Pulsars

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~pulsar/psr/Tutorial/tut/tut.html

A tutorial on pulsars

http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/animations/pulsar.html

Animations and video - supernovae and pulsars

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/pulsar_java.html

Movie of an x-ray pulsar

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/supernovas.html

X-Ray astronomy field guide to supernovae

Novae, Type Ia supernovae

http://www.flash.uchicago.edu/research/science.html

x-ray bursts, novae, and Type Ia supernovae

http://www-supernova.lbl.gov/public/figures/snvideo.html

A nice supernova movie on the Lawerence Berkeley Labs website

Gamma Ray Bursts

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html

Information on bursts with couterparts Links to all sorts of gamma-ray burst sites

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/batse/

GRB skymap - updated every month, also light curves of the most recent bursts

http://www.astro.ku.dk/~holger/ddirGAMMA/dF/OFSAT.html

Orbiting and future GRB satellites

http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/gcn3_archive.html

More observational data than you ever wanted about GRBs (the equivalent to the IAU Circ)

http://www.ucolick.org/~andrew/

Models for gamma-ray bursts

http://space.mit.edu/HETE/mission_status.html

HETE Status and observations