PH 105 (Duke Astrophysics) Course Links

links for the Duke Astrophysics course

properties of stars

planets around other stars

the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

black holes

dark matter

brown dwarfs

the solar neutrino mystery

starbirth

starbirth summary table

planetary nebulae

supernovae

gravitational effects on time and space (including black holes)

galactic evolution

cosmology

inflation

Big Bang

gamma-ray bursters

properties of stars

the 25 brightest stars
the 30 closest stars
the brightest 314 (m < 3.55) stars from The Observer's Handbook
the surface of Betelgeuse the first image of the surface of a star other than the sun

Hipparchos catalogue: query form
Tycho catalogue: query form

Blackbody Radiation (virtual reality)
Doppler Effect Applet
Binary Star Applet

the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence

The Astrobiology Web
the SETI Institute now at Greenbank
SERENDIP at UC-Berkeley
META/BETA at Harvard

black holes

black hole reference articles

black hole FAQ frequently asked questions
NCSA Relativity group
Kings University Calgary, Alberta
PASP
Morehead Planetarium
timeline

black hole candidates (in binary systems)

V404 Cygni the best case
A0620-00 the 2nd best case
GS 2000+25 the 3rd best candidate for a stellar black hole
Cygnus X-1 the first candidate

black hole candidates (at centers of clusters or galaxies)

Hubble finds a bare black hole pouring out light (9/10/97)
massive black holes dwell in most galaxies according to '97 Hubble census
M87 a giant elliptical galaxy
NGC 4261 -- and an unexpected new mystery... the black hole is not at the center!
globular cluster M15 either a black hole or a core collapse

dark matter

The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy, and Gravity symposium recorded live april, 2001
tutorial on Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Dark Matter page from the Center for Particle Astrophysics
MACHO candidates one event in the LMC and four events near the galactic center
the OGLE project 12 microlensing candidates near the galactic center
~~MACHOs are 50% of halo dark matter~~
Hubble rules out red dwarfs as dark matter

brown dwarfs

Gliese 229B verification of the first brown dwarf by Hubble, with a guide to the differences between planets, stars, and dwarfs

the solar neutrino mystery

a short introductory guide to neutrinos and how to detect them with water
summary of current data from all solar neutrino experiments
neutrino detection experiments links to theory and to all experiments
(Magnetic?) Activity Cycles on other Stars
Activity Dependence on Stellar Age
Maunder minimum
current Magnetogram, Dopplergram, Intensitygram, and Sunspot current

starbirth

CCS Observations of B335 the first Bok globule caught in the act of contracting

discovery announcement from JPL

EGGS: starbirth in M16 it made the front page of the Durham Morning Herald & the New York Times

fly into M16 courtesy of CNN (a QuickTime Movie... bonus: see the face of Jesus and/or Gene Shalit)

jets in Herbig-Haro objects
Young Stellar Objects
triggered star formation in NGC 2264: 6 daughters and 1 parent
infrared view of the heart of the Orion molecular cloud

protoplanetary disks around stars

discovery of more than a hundred proplyds in the Orion nebula
4 new protoplanetary disks in Orion and the Orion mosaic
edge-on disk around Beta Pictoris from Hubble
a Jan '96 Hubble image showing a warped disk around Beta Pictoris caused by a planet?
Elliptical Rings on Beta Pictoris
e Eridani's circumstellar disk Analogue to the Solar System (7/8/98)

planets around other stars

planets around a pulsar the first confirmed discovery of earth and jupiter-sized planets around any star.... but how did they get to be around a star that supernovaed? are they debris?
SFSU's Planetary Search page details a comparison of the 12 confirmed extrasolar planets around solar-type stars
other planet or protoplanetary stuff

TMR-01 the first picture of an extrasolar planet Hubble press release (5/28/98)
Exoplanets from Eric Mamajek
First Circumstellar Disk around a Massive Star (6/24/98)

on the edge

First Image of a Possible Planet Around Another Star
Lallande 21185 has two planets!
CM Draconis: The first exoplanet found through transits?

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia from France

planetary nebulae

Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page
Bruce Balick's Planetary page
the Cat's-Eye (NGC 6543) a planetary nebula ejection in a double-star system
NGC 7027 the first discovered to radiate in the IR (dust) and the radio (CO molecules)
the Hourglass planetary (MyCn18) a dust cloud pinches the waist of the gas nebula
Helix Nebula explosion thousands of "cometary knots" seen in the nearest planetary
Cocoon of a New White Dwarf NGC 2440
missing links between red giants and bright planetary nebula:

Egg Nebula

searchlight beams and multiple arcs around a dying star (1996)
NICMOS images jets in the Egg (May 1997)

NGC 2346 the Butterfly the first photo released after the Feb. '97 fix
Cepheid photometry and radial velocity archive from McMaster University
doomed star Eta Carinae view it in 3-dimensions if you had red/blue glasses

supernovae and their remnants

a neutron star alone in space
Crab Nebula: the Movie
Hubble views the Crab nebula
Supernova 1987A

collision of blast wave and wind ring about to begin (June 1997)
STIS chemical analysis or rings (May 1997)
supernova blast begins taking shape (January 1997)
rings around Supernova 1987A (1994)

the Cygnus loop a shock wave from a supernova
pulsar resources from Princeton

gravitational effects on space and time

Naked singularities are possible? The Stephen Hawking-Kip Thorne bet:

~~A Bet on a Cosmic Scale, and a Concession, Sort of~~ (NY Times, 02/12/97)
~~What a Physicist Finds Obscene~~ (NY Times, 02/16/97)

Frequently Asked Questions about black holes
Falling into a Black Hole
movies of colliding black holes, wormholes, and more.... from the NCSA supercomputer
virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
2 new Einstein crosses
gravitational lensing in a cluster of galaxies
images of 30 gravitational lenses
the LIGO Project to detect gravitational waves your tax dollars at work
Relativity Tutorial

our galaxy

Multiwavelength Milky Way a view of the Milky Way in 7 different spectral regions

galaxies

the 1920 Shapley-Curtis debate are galaxies island universes? what really happened
NASA extragalactic database published info on any extragalactic object

galactic evolution

Hubble keeps looking farther into space & farther back in time:

the farthest galaxy in the universe (z = 4.92) from 7/30/97
Building Blocks of Today's Galaxies from 9/4/96
The Hubble Deep Field from 1/15/96
Galaxies in the Young Universe from 12/6/94

the faint blue galaxy mystery and perhaps a solution
Hubble tries to solve the quasar mystery

are they galactic centers or not? from 1/11/95
quasars! and where they live nov '96

cosmology: the future of the universe

The Standard Cosmological Model, P. J. Peebles, Jun '98 abstract astro-ph/9806201
Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial
tutorial on Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
1996 Scale of the Universe debate on the value of Hubble's constant
May 9, '96 Hubble observers converge on value of H_o?
The Evolution of the Universe Scientific American, March '98, Peebles, Schramm, Turner & Kron
the age problem: are the oldest things older than the universe?

Hipparcos and the Ages of Globular Clusters, Krauss

preprint astro-ph/9706128 ApJ 494 (1), pp96-110

is the Universe's expansion accelerating? so say these:

High Redshift Supernova Search
High-z SN- Home page

inflation and the cosmological constant

Living with the Cosmological Constant, J.D.Cohn, abstract astro-ph/9807128
The End of the Age Problem, and the Case for the Cosmological Constant, Krauss et al.

abstract astro-ph/9706227 ApJ 501(2), pp.461-466

Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Inflation, M.S. Turner, April '97

abstract astro-ph/9704062

the Big Bang

take a trip back to the Big Bang on the NCSA cosmology page
Cambridge cosmology page: black holes, cosmic strings, the big bang, & Stephen Hawking

other CMB stuff

Cosmic Microwave Background - FAQs
Anistropies in the CMB
how the CMB looks
Balloon Sounds Out the Early Universe
Boomerang 2001 results
MAXIMA 2001 results
understanding the CMB: Wayne Hu's Warner prize (2001) talk
Max's cosmic cinema: watch how cosmological parameters affect the power spectrum

gamma-ray bursters

the Distance to Gamma-Ray bursters 1995 Scale of the Universe debate
Hubble id's optical counterpart of gamma-ray burst in distant galaxy
Scientific American: Article: Gamma-Ray Bursts (full text and pictures with links) July '97 issue

simulations, applets, virtual reality, movies

Blackbody Radiation (virtual reality)
Galaxy Cluster Simulation change the mass and watch the galaxy velocities change (applet)
Doppler Effect Applet
Binary Star Applet and Eclipsing Binary Applet

change the orbit size, eccentricity, inclination & see the radial velocity curves and the orbits

watch a cluster H-R diagram evolve (movie)