Resources for Scientists

High-Level Resources

• 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
  
  
• Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate
  
  
• High Energy Astrophysics Codes, Interface, and Tools (HEACIT) Working Group
  
  
• NASA Astrophysics' "Physics of the Cosmos (PhysCOS)" program
  
  
• NASA Astrophysics' "Cosmic Origins (COR)" program
  
  
• NASA Decadal Survey planning
  
  

Presentations

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• Astro2020 Whitepapers
  • Leadership and Participation in NASA's Astrophysics Explorer-Class Missions.
  • Supplementary Material for the Astro2020 Whitepaper Leadership and Participation in NASA's Astrophysics Explorer-Class Missions
• 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)

• The HEASARC Users Group