High Energy Astrophysics
Fall 2020

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

LOCAL GRAPHICS AND DATA SETS

REFERENCE WORKS

• "The Suzaku High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometer" PASJ, 59, S77 (Jan 2007) (Large file 13 Mb)
• "Quantum Calorimetry" Physics Today, Aug 1999
• "Hot science with cool sensors" Physics Today, Aug 2018

MATHEMATICAL WEBSITES

• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• On-line function integrator
• Taylor Series Calculator

ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES

• WebSpec
• Astronomy codes
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• High Energy Astronomy Picture of the Week.
• Astronomical animations
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
  • Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
  • Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  • John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
  • Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
  • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
• Past Major Space Missions for X-ray Astronomy
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995; decommissioned 5 Jan 2012)
  • Suzaku (launched 10 July 2005; mission finished 28 Aug 2015)
  • Hitomi (launched 17 February 2016; mission recovery terminated 28 Apr 2016)
• Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for X-ray/gamma-ray Astronomy
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (launched 23 Jul 1999)
  • X-ray Multimirror Mission (launched 10 Dec 1999)
  • Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (launched 20 Nov 2004)
  • Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (launched 11 Jun 2008)
  • Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Mission - NuSTAR (launched 13 Jun 2012)
  • X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) (launch planned early 2022)
  • High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
  • A compendium of NASA space science missions

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Please send any comments to Jack Hughes, jph "at" physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised August 26, 2020