Required Textbooks:
An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei by Bradley M. Peterson (CUP)
Accretion Power in Astrophysics (3rd Ed.) by Frank, King & Raine (CUP)

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Left: HST WFPC2 image of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469. The white starburst ring is only 3 arcsec across.
Right: Simulated 2-d transfer function (delay vs velocity) for a Keplerian disk BLR (inclination of 90 deg).

A great source of free extragalactic astrophysics publications:
Level 5: A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

Manuscript Preparation:
AASTeX Package Info and Instructions to Authors for manuscript preparation.
The new Institute Of Physics (IOP) publishers for ApJ: Guidelines for authors.
The emulate ApJ style files at CTAN; see also emulateapj at arxiv.org

Some Astronomical Databases & Tools:
ADS
Los Alamos/Cornell ArXive Preprint Server
Skyview ; and NED

Other Recommended Books For This Course:
- Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei, 3rd ed.; Donald Osterbrock & Gary Ferland (aka the bible)
- Cataclysmic Variable Stars: how and why they vary; Coel Hellier (an excellent intro level book)
- Cataclysmic Variable Stars ; Brian Warner (the book for CVs)
- Active Galactic Nuclei ; Ian Robson (informative intro level book)
- Exploring the X-Ray Universe ; Charles and Seward (intro level, but very helpful and well illustrated)
- X-ray Binaries; Lewin, Van Paradijs & Van Den Heuvel, Eds. (observations outdated but excellent research review chapters)
- Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars; Shapiro & Teukolsky (a bit dated, but a classic)
- High Energy Astrophysics; Volumes 1 and 2, Malcolm Longair (a little old, but a great pair of comprehensive books)
- Astronomy Methods; Hale Bradt (good reference on a wide range of topics relates to the physics of astronomical observations)
- Astrophysics Processes; Hale Bradt (very good companion book to the above, focusing on the physics of astronomy)

Miscellaneous:
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics On-line from Cambridge University Press
The National Bureau of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun

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This page was last updated on 2011 Jan 17