ASTRO 610: BINARY STARS

FALL 2012

T TH 14:00--15:15, PS 256

Professor: Jerome A. Orosz

Textbooks:

Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis, Second Edition, by Josef Kallrath & Eugene F. Milone, (Springer, 2009).

Transiting Exoplanets, by Carole Haswell, (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Click here for the syllabus.

Lecture notes from August 28, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from August 30, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 4, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 6, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 11, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 13, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 18, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from September 20, 2012 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from October 2, 12, 2012. Click here for a PDF file.

Lecture notes from november 1, 2012. Click here for a PDF file.

Click here for the data files for homework 2.

Click here for the data files for homework 4.

Click here for the data file for homework 5.

Click here for the ELC.tar file (gzipped).

Click here for the gridloop.opt.example.

Click here for the data files for GG Ori.

Click here for the data files for GU Boo.

Click here for the data files for IT Lib.

Click here for the data files for SV Cam.

Links taken from Prof. Welsh:

Linux and Fortran Programming:
Intro to Unix
FORTRAN Help
Starlink Guides

Graphics and Imaging (aka "data Visualization"):
PGPLOT a library of plotting subroutines.
Grace (aka "Xmgr" or "ace/gr") a standalone gui-driven plotting package.
gnuplot cenral and gnuplot FAQ (note: gnuplot is NOT affiliated with GNU nor the FSF projects)
gnuplot - brief maunal & tutorial site from Duke Univ.'s Civil & Envir. Engineering
MONGO User's Guidefrom John Tonry
Note: "SM" was formerly called "supermongo", but it is not an offshoot of "mongo", so the name has been changed.
Intro to SM (or supermongo) page from the ``Intro to Computing in Physics'' class web page at the Univ. of Utah.
SM manual the official SM manual from the authors of SM; see also the SM tutorial. And finally, more on SM.

Astronomical Literature
ADS
Los Alamos/Cornell ArXiv Preprint Server
ApJ

Astronomical Databases & Tools
Skyview
SIMBAD
NED
Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (provided by ESO)
Landolt Equatorial Standards on line BVRI photometry of standard stars near the celestial equator by A. U. Landolt (1992 AJ 104, 340)
IR standards from ESO
A simple JD/civil date conversion utility from HEASARC.
A simple Energy/wavelength/frequency Converter from HEASARC
A total galactic HI column density nH calculator from HEASARC.
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility:
IRAF homepage at NOAO.


Physical Constants, Time:
The CODATA Internationally recommended values of the Fundamental physical constants from the NIST site.
A simple JD-to-calendar date converter from the USNO
The current time from the US Naval Observatory & the NIST (java).

To see the current MJD, press this button: .

More Tools and Resources:
The famous National Bureau of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun
The ghostscript/ghostview home page.
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics On-line from Cambridge University Press
FITS info
HTML guide and a html template sample file (load the page then save the file). See also the Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Techniques of Observational Astronomy web pages from John Oliver's undergrad course at the Univ of Florida. Look at the "Effect of the Earth's Atmosphere" section in particular.
Observational Techniques Class Notes from Jon Holtzman @ New Mexico State Univ.
Calculation of Astronomical Refraction a wealth of information from Andy Young's site.