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Resources for Scientists
High-Level Resources
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American Astronomical Society (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD): the HEAD Newsletters contain invaluable and up-to-date information about all NASA and other space agenccies currently active X-ray and gamma-ray missions
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Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate
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High Energy Astrophysics Codes, Interface, and Tools (HEACIT) Working Group
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NASA Astrophysics' "Physics of the Cosmos (PhysCOS)" program
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NASA Astrophysics' "Cosmic Origins (COR)" program
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NASA Decadal Survey planning
Presentations
To add your presentations to this list, please contact the HEASARC Help Desk- Astro2020 Whitepapers
- High-Energy Astrophysics/X-ray Astronomy Schools
- 2022 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2021 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2019 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2018 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2017 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2016 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2015 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2014 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2013 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2012 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2011 Fermi Summer School (Lewes, Delaware, USA)
- 2011 X-Ray Astronomy School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
- 2008 Urbino High Energy Astrophysics Summer School (Urbino, Italy)
- 2007 5th International School (Washington, DC, USA)
- 2006 1st (European) X-ray Astronomy School (Athens, Greece)
- 2005 4th International School (Cambridge, Mass., USA)
- 2003 3rd International School (Wallops Island, Virginia, USA)
- 2003 COSPAR School (Udaipur, India)
- 2002 2nd International School (Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, USA)
- 2001 COSPAR School (INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)
- 2001 1st International School (Greenbelt, Maryland, USA)
- MSSL Workshop No. 3 on High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
- MSSL High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy School
- Observational Cosmology (PPT) Courtesy: Jonathan Gardner
- Online Proceedings of High-Energy Astrophysics Meetings
- XMM-Newton SAS Workshops: This series of workshops aims at providing XMM-Newton users with an introduction to the procedures and techniques required to successfully reduce and analyse data using the XMM-Newton Science Analysis System (SAS) software.
- X-ray Timing Courtesy: Paul Ray
Miscellaneous Science Topics
- GRBCAT - Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
- IACHEC - International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration: information on high energy calibration and cross calibration between different missions
- uaDB - Universal Atomic Database: Find atomic physics quantities needed for astrophysical research
- Soft X-Ray Background Data Sets and Other Resources at the HEASARC
- Swiftgrb - Swift Gamma-ray Burst Catalog
High-Energy Astronomy Experiments on Balloons and Sounding Rockets
- DXL - Diffuse X-rays from the Local Galaxy sounding rocket experiment
- InFOCμS - International Focusing Optics Collaboration for μCrab Sensitivity hard X-ray telescope
- X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimeter
General Astronomical Image Collections
- Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
- ESA Multimedia Gallery
- Google Sky
- JAXA Digital Archives: Online Image and Photo Collections
- NASA Images and Video Library
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio's collection of over 6,800 visualizations and multimedia products
- SkyView Facility to `Make Your Own Sky Image' at any Wavelength
- WorldWide Telescope
Astronomical Images in Specific Energy Bands or from Specific Missions/Observatories
- ASCA Image Gallery [X-ray]
- Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Images [mm/sub-mm]
- BeppoSAX Image Gallery [X-ray]
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) Picture Gallery [X-ray]
- Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Images [CMB]
- European Southerm Observatory (ESO) Public Image & Video Archives [Optical]
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Ultraviolet Image Gallery [UV]
- Herschel Space Telescope Images [Infrared]
- High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week (HEAPOW) Image Archive [mostly X-ray and gamma-ray]
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Picture Gallery [IR, optical and UV]
- Images, Spectra, and Light Curves of Celestial High-Energy Sources [mostly X-ray and gamma-ray]
- International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Picture Gallery and Picture Of the Month Archive [hard X-ray and gamma-ray])
- James Webb Space Telescope Images and Videos [IR])
- Kepler and K2 Image Gallery [Optical]
- Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) Video and Image Gallery [X-ray]
- NOAO Optical Image Gallery [Optical]
- NRAO Radio Image Gallery [Radio]
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Images [X-ray]
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Videos [X-ray]
- Planck Images and Videos [CMB]
- ROSAT Images at HEASARC [X-ray]
- ROSAT Images at MPE [X-ray]
- Spitzer Infrared Observatory Image Gallery [IR]
- Suzaku X-Ray Observatory Image Gallery [X-ray]
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission Multimedia Gallery and Resources [X-ray, UV and optical]
- Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Images and Multimedia [IR]
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data Product Images [CMB]
- XMM-Newton Science Data Images at HEASARC [X-ray]
- XMM-Newton X-ray and Optical Image Gallery at ESA [X-ray and optical]
Miscellaneous Other Resources
- Acknowledging the use of HEASARC data and/or software
- Acronyms used on the HEASARC Website Defined
- Announcements of Upcoming High-Energy & Other Astronomy Meetings
- Announcements of Upcoming High-Energy & Other Astronomy Summer Schools
- Approved Guest Observer Program Lists for High-Energy Astrophysics Missions
- Approved NASA ADAP Program Lists using High-Energy Astrophysics Data
- Astronomy & High-Energy Astrophysics Websites
- Astronomy Literature (abstracts, preprints, journals, handbooks)
- ASTRO-Update: One-Stop Shop for the Current Releases of the Most Popular Astronomy Software (AIPS, IRAF, FTOOLS, XSPEC, etc.)
- Bibliography: Lists of Publications (both refereed and non-refereed) for HEA and CMB Missions Archived at the HEASARC
- Chronology of High-Energy (X-Ray & Gamma-Ray) and General Astronomy
- Detailed Time-line of Many Key Events in the History of Gamma-ray Astronomy
- GCN - Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network
- HEASARC Cookbook: Finding, Downloading & Analyzing High-Energy Data
- HEASARC's Legacy Journal (1992 - 1998)
- Questions (and Answers) about Cosmic High-Energy (X-ray and Gamma-ray) Astronomy
- Recommendation for HEASARC Dataset Identification
- Science Results Using HEASARC Data
- Subscribe to HEASARC E-mail Lists (HEASARC E-mail Archives)
- Upcoming High-Energy Astrophysics Dates & Deadlines
- Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (2nd Edition)