Useful Links

Astrophysics in the World

• AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
• HEARSAC: High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
• Imagine the Universe! (NASA High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center)
• Space Calendar (NASA/JPL)
• Good Astronomy Activities on the World Wide Web (Astron.Soc.Pacific)
• UNIVERSE (portal site to the Universe, in Japanese)
• WIKISKY.ORG (Web-based planerarium)
• IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance) New!

Gamma-ray Astrophysics

• List of World's Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiments
• CGRO (Compton Gamma Ray Observatory)
  • CGRO Science Support Center
  • EGRET   EGRET (Stanford)
  • BATSE   BATSE (MSFC)
  • BATSE   COMPTEL (UNH)
  • OSSE
• INTEGRAL
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (was: GLAST)
  • LAT (Stanford)
  • GBM (MSFC)
  • ACD (GSFC)
• Japanese GLAST Working Group
• AGILE
• GCN: The GRB Coordinates Network

X-ray Satellites

• ASCA
• ROSAT (MPE)    ROSAT (NASA/GSFC)
• RXTE
• BeppoSAX (NASA/GSFC)
• Chandra (NASA)    Chandra (Harvard)
• HETE-2 (MIT)
• Suzaku (was: Astro-E2)
• XMM-Newton
• RHESSI
• Swift
• NeXT (planned)
• EXIST (planned)
• XEUS/IXO (planned)

Physical/Astronomical Societies Official Web Pages

• ASJ (Astronomical Society of Japan) (in Japanese)
• JPS (Physical Society of Japan)   [members only page]
      Cosmic Ray Division (in Japanese)
• AAS (The American Astronomical Society)
• APS (The American Physical Society)
• AIP (The American Institute of Physics)
• ASA (Astronomical Society of Australia)
• Australian Institute of Physics
• ASP (The Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• IUPAP  [Cosmic Ray Commission] [Committees in Japan]
• PaNAGIC (Particle And Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee)
• IAU (The International Astronomical Union)
• COSPAR (Committee on Space Research)
• CRC (Cosmic-ray Researchers Congress) (in Japanese)
• HEAPA (High Energy AstroPhysics Association in Japan) (in Japanese)
• Japan Association for Information Processing in Astronomy (in Japanese)
• ASPERA (Astroparticle Physics for Europe) New!

e-prints

• LANL e-Print Archive (Yukawa Mirror)
• Recent IAU Circulars (See also IAUC Search Facilities )
• ATEL (The Astronomer's Telegram)
• PASJ Electronic Edition
• ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System: NAOJ Mirror)
• ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) Home Page
• Scitation (AIP publication database)
• EPrints.org
• Physics Comments - Scholar Discussion for Physics

Online texts

• ADS Digital Library
  • V. Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics

Databases - General

• Scirus (Search engine for scientific information only)
• NED (NASA Extragalactic Database)
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• LEDAS (Leicester Database and Archive Service) (incl. GINGA data)
• ADIL (NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library)
• ARIBIB (ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References)
• Network Library in Astronomy (NAOJ, in Japanese)
• National Space Science Data Center
• SkyView (The Internet's Virtural Telescope)
• MAST Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (HST, SDSS, ...)
• SLAC SPIRES Database (High Energy Physics)
• Particle Data Group (Review of Particle Properties)

Databases - Specific

• The first AGILE-GRID catalog of high confidence gamma-ray sources New!
• TeVCat (online TeV gamma-ray source catalog)
• Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs)
• ATNF Pulsar Catalogue [ Princeton Pulsar Catalog is now obsolete]
• 157 Blazars observed by BeppoSAX
• RXTE ASM light curves over 300 sources
• ROSAT All Sky Survey / ROSAT Source Browser
• TARTARUS databas of ASCA observations of AGN
• BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts Catalogue

Journals - Astrophysics

• The Astrophysical Journal
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (1969-2000 issues)
• Astroparticle Physics
• Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Nature [Japan]
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
• Astrophyics and Space Science
• Space Science Review
• Experimental Astronomy
• New Astronomy
• The Astronomical Journal
• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Advances in Space Research
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• "Tenmon Geppou" (The Astronomical Herald, in Japanese)

Journals - Physics

• Physical Review & Physical Review Letters
• Reviews of Modern Physics
• Journal of Physics G
• Physics Letters A / Physics Letters B / Physics Reports
• International Journal of Modern Physics D
• Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
• "Butsuri" (bulletin of JPS, in Japanese)

Tools

• HEASARC Tools (ex. CoCo)
• CDS Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
• Technical Terminology in Astronomy (in Japanese)
• Astronomical Calculator
• FITS Support Office
• Japan FITS Committee (in Japanese)
• PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library
• CERN Library
• IDL (Interactive Data Language) by ITT Corporation
• IDL Astronomy User's Library
• Numerical Receipes
• Computer Physics Communications Program Library

Simulations

• GEANT (Detector Description and Simulation Tool)
• EGS (Electron Gamma Shower) [Distribution site]
• EGS (Electron Gamma Shower) [SLAC Virtual Visitor Center]
• Cosmos, GENAS, EPICS (K. Kasahara)
• CORSIKA (COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade)
• HEMAS-DPM (Simulation of Very and Ultra High Energy extensive air showers)
• DarkSUSY (Relic density and detection rates within MSSM)
• galprop (cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy)

Institutes - Japan

• ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)
• ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science) / X-ray astronomy group
• STE Lab (Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University)
• NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
• RESCEU (Reserch Center for Early Universe)
• RIKEN Cosmic Radiation Laboratory
• Kyoto-Univ. Cosmic Ray Group
• Hiroshima Univ. High Energy Physics / High Energy Astrophysics
• Osaka Univ. X-ray Astronomy Group
• Univ. Tokyo Makishima Group (in Japanese)
• IPMU (Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Univeristy of Tokyo) New!
• Web Servers related to Physics: Cosmic-ray Laboratories in Japan (in Japanese)

Institutes - USA

• NASA Headquarter
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrophysics Science Division
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Science at NASA
• STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute)
• SAO (Smithonian Astrophysical Observatory), High Energy Astrophysics Division
• University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy
• U.S. Naval Observatory [Moon position] [Time Service]
• Cosmic_Web, University of Utah

Institutes - Australia

• AAO (Anglo-Australian Observatory)
• ATNF (Australian Telescope National Facility, CSIRO)
• Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories

Institutes - Europe

• ESA (European Space Agency) /
• Cosmic Physics and Space Astrophysics institute, C.N.R.
• Max-Planck-Institut
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (München)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (Garching)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Heidelberg)

Woomera

• Woomera
• Woomera Post (by World News)
• Woomera Weather
  • Latest Weather Observations for South Australia
  • Woomera Weather Forcast
  • Woomera Radar
  • Satellite Images of Australia
  • Climate Average for Woomera
    (maintained by Bureau of Meteorology, Commonwealth of Australia)