Mayuri S.Rao
The purpose of this page is to serve as a growing repository of useful links to resources around the web, categorised under (sometimes not so narrow) headings. I have listed below some places where I have found interesting and useful information that I have found very helpful in building my understanding of various topics. Some links are just for fun! I acknowledge the authors/ websites/ organizations for the using links to their material and claim no ownership whatsover to the resources listed below (unless exclusively specified otherwise). I thank the original contributors/developers of the content in the links below and acknowledge their copyrights over the same. Do email me with your feedback about the utility of these links listed, possible suggestions of any more that would you like to see here and with violation of copyrights issues, if any. (details in contact information on home page)
Hope you find these helful!
Useful resources for astronomers
- NED : Objects, Data, Literature and Tools
- Conference service : Conference listings by subject and country
- SAO/NASA ADS : Search papers by author, year, title, abstract
- Cosmology Calculator : Ned Wright's cosmology calculator
- TopCat : Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
- Staralt : Object Visibility Calculator
- Astro Baki from UB Berkeley : Lots of lecture notes and resources on various astronomy topics including radio astronomy, cosmology, fluid dynamics, Radiative processes, to name a few..
Cosmology
- Wayne Hu's tutorials : A wonderful compilation of lecture notes and tutorials on different topics in Cosmology
- Aaron Parson's Cosmology Lecture notes : Excellent Lecture notes, equations, starts at intermediate level, aimed for graduate students
- Mark White's reading list : A collection of links and resources for cosmology and more by Mark White
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial : Tutorials, lecture notes and results from experiments
General Physics
- Minute Phyics : Short videos explaining various concepts in physics in the duration of the order of a minute
- Hyperphysics : Various concepts in physics explained organized in a tree like strucutre
Popular Astronomy
- CosmoQuest : All things cosmo
- Bad Astronomy : Phil Plait brings you a good blog called bad astronomy
- Sky & Telescope : Astronomy news and how to observe the sky etc.
- Astrobites : Summaries of journal papers and more by grad students with guest posts by others as well
- arXiver : A really cool website that brings you the latest of the astro-ph in short.. check out their about page!
- Astronomy.com : The name is self-explanatory
- Astrobetter : To be able to do astronomy well
- Universe Today : Your dose of Universe today
Popular Science
- Science 2.0 : Articles on the latest in Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences and more!
- scienceblogs : The name says it all
Python
- python.org : The official python website with plety of documentation and examples
- astropy : Python packages for astronomers/astronomy
- Tutorialspoint : Many programming languages here. This link takes you to the python programming section
- Astropython : Python for astronomers
IDL
- idlcoyote : THE ideal place to IDL.. Thanks David Fanning!
RF
- RF Cafe : An amazing collection of information, opportunities and apps for all things RF
- Mini-Circuits : RF/IF & microwave components
Graduate life