Ioffe Institute

Department of Theoretical Astrophysics

Below we list some external links, related to astronomy and astrophysics, which appear interesting or relevant to us. These external sites are neither maintained nor endorsed by the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (DTA). DTA declines any responsibility for their contents and operation.

• Some astrophysics research groups and institutions with close or related interests
  • Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at the Ioffe Institute
  • High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI (Space Research Institute) in Moscow
  • Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow)
  • Astronomy in Saint-Petersburg State University (in Russian)
  • Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • CRAL: astrophysical research center in Lyon
  • NCAC (CAMK): N. Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw
  • Neutron Star (Theory) group at UNAM in Mexico
  • US / Russia collaboration in Plasma Astrophysics at the Astronomy Department of Cornell University
• Some of the astronomical observatories whose data are used in our research
  • SAO RAS - Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • HST - Hubble Space Telescope
  • Chandra X-ray observatory
  • XMM-Newton X-ray observatory
  • Subaru telescope
  • INTEGRAL - The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
  • ESO - European Southern Observatory
    • VLT - The Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal
    • La Silla Observatory
  • CTIO - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
  • Keck Observatory
• Astronomy and astrophysics popular sites
  • Night Sky Info: Weekly news about the night sky and articles on selected astronomical topics
  • Russian AstroNet: Weekly news about the night sky, astronomy news, reviews, sky map, glossary, and more... but only in Russian
  • Astronomy Now: Astro News from the Astronomy Now magazine
  • Science@NASA
  • HubbleSite NewsCenter: Collection of Hubble Space Telescope news releases and supporting materials
  • Chandra Animations and Video
  • Spacetime Wrinkles: Movies, images, and explanations related to General Relativity
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Ask an Astronomer at Cornell University.
  • Collections of links to astronomy-related educational and kid-friendly resources and sites:
    • A View of Outer Space from Your Window
    • Space Lessons for Kids
    • Be an Astronomer Right from Your Window
    • Parents Guide to Teaching Kids sbout the Solar System
• Physics links
  • NIST Physical Reference Data: Collection of databases on fundamental physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, X-ray and gamma-ray data, nuclear physics, and condensed matter
  • Nuclear data: Collection of nuclear physics data bases at Lund University
  • WebElements periodic table: Information about all chemical elements
  • Shock Wave Database: Collection of measurements of thermodynamic properties of matter in shock and isentropic release waves
• Principal search tools and archives for astronomy and astrophysics
  • ADS - the NASA Astrophysics Data System
    • Abstract Service
    • E-print Service
  • CDS - Astronomical Data Center in Strasbourg
    • SIMBAD Astronomical Database
  • arXiv - electronic preprint archive
    • astro-ph - astrophysics electronic preprint archive
• Spectroscopy and opacity data for astrophysics
  • NIST Atomic Spectra Database
  • Atomic Data for Astrophysics: Links to basic atomic data required for calculation of the ionization state of astrophysical plasmas and for quantitative spectroscopy. Most of these data are utilized in the photoionization code Cloudy