Credits and further readingAstronomy through the centuriesVarious astronomy texts, e.g., M. Hoskin, The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Electromagnetic radiationVarious physics and astronomy texts
G.Bekefi & A. Barrett,Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation, MIT Press, 1977
Absorption: M. Zombeck, Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, 1990
Coordinate systems and chartsVarious astronomy texts
Catalogs: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS) on internet
Gravity, celestial motions, and timeMotions: Various astronomy texts
Eclipses: M. Littmann & K. Willcox, Totality, University Hawaii Press, 1991; P. Guillermier & S. Koutchmy, Total Eclipses, Springer/Praxis, 1999
Time: Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, ed. K. Seidelmann, University Science Books, 1992; US Naval Observatory website
TelescopesImage formation: Various astronomy texts; physics optics texts
Techniques: C. R. Kitchin, Astrophysical Techniques, Institute of Physics, 1998; X-ray Astronomy, eds. R. Giacconi & H. Gursky, Reidel, 1974
Diffraction: G. Bekefi & A. Barrett, ibid
Adaptive optics: J. Beckers, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., eds. G. Burbidge, D. Layzer, & A. Sandage, 31, 13 (1993)
Speckle interferometry: “Speckle Imaging: a boon for astronomical observations”, S. K. Saha, Proc. Conf. Young Astrophysicsts of Today's India, 2001; also astroph/0003125
Detectors and statisticsProportional counter: G. W. Fraser, X-ray Detectors in Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1989
CCDs: CCD physics: C-K. Kim in Charge-coupled Devices and Systems, eds. M. J. Howes & D. V. Morgan, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, pp. 1–80
EGRET: G. Kanbach et al. Space Science Reviews49, 69 (1988)
Statistics: R. Evans, The Atomic Nucleus, McGraw-Hill, 1955; L. Lyons, Data Analysis for Physical Science Students, Cambridge University Press, 1991; P. Bevington & D. K. Robinson, Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill Inc., 1992
Multiple telescope interferometryE. Fomalont & M. Wright, in Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy, 1st Ed., eds. G. Verschuur and K. Kellermann, Springer-Verlag, 1974, p. 256
E. Fomalont & M. Wright A. R. Thompson, J. Moran, & G. Swenson, Jr., Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, Kreiger, 1991
Point-like and extended sourcesVarious astrophysics texts, e.g.
B. F. Burke & F. Graham-Smith, An Introduction to Radio Astronomy, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2001
J. D. Kraus, Radio astronomy, 2nd Ed., Cygnus Quasar, 1986
Properties and distances of celestial objectsTemperatures: D. Clayton, Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, McGraw-Hill, 1968
Distances: various texts and literature, e.g., G. Jacoby et al., PASP104, 599 (1992)
Absorption and scattering of photonsProcesses: W. Tucker, Radiation Processes in Astrophysics, MIT Press, 1975; G. Rybicki & A. Lightman, Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Wylie-Interscience, 1979
Cross sections: Physics radiation texts and M. Zombeck, ibid
Extinction: B. Savage & J. Mathis, Ann Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 17, 73 (1979)
Abundances: N. Grevasse & E. Anders, in AIP Conf. Proc. 183, 1989, ed. C. J. Waddington
Spectra of electromagnetic radiationContinuum spectra: G. Rybicki & A. Lightman, ibid.
Lines and radiative transfer: E. Bohm-Vitense, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, two volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1989
R. J. Rutten, Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres, Utrecht University lecture notes, 8th ed., on internet, 2003
Non-photonic observatoriesJ. N. Bahcall, Neutrino Astrophysics, Cambridge University Press, 1990
J. B. Hartle, Gravity, Addison-Wesley, 2002
W. C. Haxton, “The solar neutrino problem”, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 33, 459 (1995)
M. Boratav, “Probing theories with cosmic rays”, Europhysics News33, No. 5 (2002)
M. W. Friedlander, A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space, Harvard University Press, 2000
T. K. Gaisser, Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1991
C. Ohanian & R. Ruffini, Gravitation and Spacetime, 2nd Ed., Norton, 1994
S. Hughes, “Listening to the Universe with gravitational wave astronomy”, Annals Phys.303, 142 (2003); astro-ph 0210481
General referenceA. Cox, ed., Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, 4th Ed., AIP, 2000
K. Lang, Astrophysical Formulae, 3rd Ed., Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, 1999
J. Mitton, Cambridge Dictionary of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2001
I. Ridpath, Norton's 2000.0 Star Atlas and Reference Handbook, Longman, 1989
R. Zimmerman, The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space, Onyx, 2000
General astrophysics texts for science majorsB. W. Carroll & A. Dale Ostlie, Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Addison Wesley, 1996
M. Harwit, Astrophysical Concepts, 3rd Ed., Springer, 1998
F. Shu, An Introduction to Astronomy, University Science Books, 1982
A. Unsold, The New Cosmos: An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5th Ed., Springer, 1999
M. Zeilik & S. Gregory, Introductory Astronomy & Astrophysics, 4th Ed., Saunders College Publishing, 1998
